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Citizen Journalism in Recent Crises

Location: OSI-New York
Event Date: December 10, 2008

The Open Society Fellowship program presented a discussion with fellow Evgeny Morozov on citizen journalism in emergency situations. The conversation focused on coverage of the recent crises in South Ossetia, Mumbai, and Kenya.

For background on this topic, please see Morozov's recent article on the shortcomings of citizen journalism in the South Ossetian crisis: "Citizen War-Reporter? The Caucasus Test" (Open Democracy.net).

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