From the Arab Spring to Haiti’s reconstruction, international news coverage has relied increasingly on mobile-enhanced social media to raise awareness of global development issues. In an interview with IJNet, former CNN journalist Felipe Estefan reflects on his experiences in both professional and citizen journalism.
Octavia Nasr, fired by CNN over a tweet, tells IJNet that employers should hold employees accountable to company standards and practices--not to the negative publicity their social media updates may generate.
The New York Times has reached four million followers on Twitter, more than double the circulation of its most popular print edition, the Sunday paper.
Reporters around the world woke up to the news of Japan's 8.9 earthquake and tsunami. Almost as quickly as events unfolded, they started gathering information with social media and digital tools to give readers video, pictures, vox pops and more.
