Investigations by independent journalists like Pablo Torre are a clear example of the growing need for bottom-up, citizen ...

"They figured that this would shut me down," says Priscilla Villarreal. "But what they did was create a monster." Villarreal is a journalist in the Texas border town of Laredo. She is at the center of ...

We don’t really know how “citizen journalism” will turn out, though as I noted in an item earlier today, a growing number of entrepreneurs and traditional news organizations are giving it a try. In ...

Topix, a news aggregation service that's been around for several years, launched a new site today, at Topix.com (previously the site was Topix.net). The service continues to pull local news from a ...

You've no doubt heard of a citizen journalism, the concept that everyday folks with blogging tools can track and report the news faster and, in some cases, better than mainstream journalists. Now, we ...

Coinbase CEO and co-founder Brian Armstrong have applauded the work of citizen journalists and blockchain analysts surrounding the unfolding FTX crisis and its former CEO Sam Bankman-Fried. In a Nov.

After designing a hyperloop to vault travellers from Los Angeles to San Francisco in thirty-five minutes, establishing SpaceX so that humans can colonize other planets, and building a ...

This is part of a series on platforms and the press published jointly by CJR and the UCLA Institute for Technology, Law & Policy. In recent years, citizens have become more integrated into the digital ...

Journalism is essential in holding those in power accountable. President Trump has disregarded journalistic integrity and has attacked truth-tellers in his drive to control the narrative. Trump has ...