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Citizen media

April 2018

  • An image from Cagdas Erdogan’s Control series.

    Dog fights and sex parties: the man who photographs Istanbul after dark

    Çağdaş Erdoğan captures the explosion of underground rebellion in parts of Istanbul. ‘People have been pushed into the night,’ says the photographer who is now facing jail

February 2018

  • Remembering … photographs of missing children in the rubble after the 2008 Sichuan earthquake.

    Ai Weiwei: The artwork that made me the most dangerous person in China

  • Remembering, backpacks spell out a Chinese sentence in characters on the Haus der Kunst art museum, Munich, for the Ai Weiwei exhibition ''So Sorry''

    The Start
    Ai Weiwei on the project that awoke his political voice – The Start podcast

July 2017

  • This image taken from film provided by Amazon Studios/IFC Films shows a scene from filmmaker Matthew Heineman's documentary, "City of Ghosts." The movie opens in New York on July 7, 2017. (Amazon Studios/IFC Films)

    City of Ghosts director Matthew Heineman: 'Imagine seeing people crucified – every day'

    Their families have been killed, they live in hiding, but a brave group of Syrians continue to defy Islamic State by reporting its atrocities to the world. The director of a new documentary explains how he told their shocking stories

April 2016

  • A boatman sleeps in his boat anchored in the polluted waters of the River Buriganga in Dhaka, Bangladesh

    Untold stories seen through the Prism of youth: child journalists in Bangladesh

    In a country where the media is sometimes repressed, video news service Prism allows young citizen journalists to venture beyond the mainstream

August 2015

  • Feiden Santana, who filmed polkice shooting of Walter Scott

    The counted
    'I dream about it every night': what happens to Americans who film police violence?

  • Feidin Santana was an eyewitness to the Walter Scott police shooting.  He videotaped the event on his cellphone camera.

    The counted
    'I will never get over it': Feidin Santana on filming the police shooting of Walter Scott – video

March 2015

  • Meerkat … from our man in Lidl

    Meerkat: the future of reporting – or just a plaything for narcissists?

    The video-streaming platform could, say some big-name supporters, be the killer app for citizen journalists, allowing them to broadcast world-changing events live to the planet. So our correspondent in Kent went out in search of some hot news

October 2014

  • A crowd cheer during a political rally in Maputo.

    Guardian Africa network
    Mozambique election: citizen journalists keep politicians on their toes

    As the south east African country prepares to go to the polls tomorrow, a small army of reporters are safeguarding the democratic process. Daily Maverick reports

September 2014

  • John Naughton

    The networker
    Why Twitter beats Facebook for breaking news

    John Naughton
    People imagine Twitter and Facebook to be much alike, but reaction to the Michael Brown shooting in Ferguson suggests otherwise, writes John Naughton

August 2014

  • ferguson men cell phones

    Dan Gillmor column
    Ferguson’s citizen journalists revealed the value of an undeniable video

    Dan Gillmor
    Dan Gillmor: Until the police stops treating communities as war zones and people as enemy combatants, keep your phone handy

July 2014

  • Didcot A power station towers demolished

    Demolition job: why we love to watch huge buildings fall down

  • Greenslade
    'Impressive' hyperlocal news sites are campaigning and investigating

April 2014

  • Eliot Higgins

    In praise of ...
    In praise of … Brown Moses

    Editorial: Blogger Eliot Higgins charts the unreported news from parts of Syria where no journalist would sensibly visit

March 2014

  • Police on patrol in Tiananmen Square

    China arrests citizen journalists for reporting Tiananmen 'self-immolation'

    Founder of human rights website and three others are held after reporting incidents including apparent self-immolation in Beijing

February 2014

  • Greenslade
    Pocklington Post makes a virtue of parish pump stories written by readers

    Johnston Press title aims for 75% UGC content

January 2014

  • Greenslade
    Council to reserve seats for citizen journalists

    Just tweet us to say you'll be there, says Medway council

December 2013

  • Kenyan dancers

    Voices from the south
    Kenya at 50: how social media has increased the pace of change

    From #OccupyParliament to the Westgate attack, Mark Kaigwa considers the consequences of the rapidly changing social media landscape in Kenya

November 2013

  • boy in Arghandab

    View from the top
    'Local people know their countries, and are best-placed to tell their own stories'

    David Hoffman, co-founder of Internews, talks about media's role in development and the merits and challenges of supporting independent journalism in developing countries

August 2013

  • A protest in Brazil: Mídia Ninja uses mobile phones to report from the streets

    Brazil's ninja reporters spread stories from the streets

    Band of volunteer citizen journalists are setting the news agenda with their 'no-cuts, no censorship' approach

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