New Book Presents How Citizen Journalism is Changing the World

Media have played an increasingly vital role in transforming societies and, now, a new book explains how technology is further revolutionizing the way citizens and journalists access and share information.

In Citizens Rising: Independent Journalism and the Spread of Democracy, David Hoffman makes the case that nowadays media activists, armed with cell phones and other devices, have the power to influence their environment - from reducing conflict to improving governance.

“The shift from media controlled by a few, to media owned by all of us portends a revolution as great as that which followed the invention of the printing press,” says Hoffman.

David Hoffman is the President Emeritus and Founder of Internews, a global non-profit organization that fosters independent media and access to information worldwide. Internews was co-founded by Hoffman in 1982. NBC News chief foreign correspondent Andrea Mitchell calls the book “a riveting, exhilarating exploration of how new media and old are changing the world.”

Sources: ICFJ, Youtube, Internews

Stanislava Antova and Lea Kaplja