Join us this Friday, March 17th (St. Patrick’s Day!) at 7:00 PM EST as we stream Tonight We Riot with independent journalist Ford Fischer. As editor-in-chief of News2Share, Ford focuses on raw video journalism, often covering protests across the political spectrum. We’ll be discussing protest coverage, representation in media, and some of the discourse around…

I’ll be honest, I used to scoff at the term “citizen journalism.” Why should any average Joe with a Twitter account be trusted with the same line of work for which I’m working on a bachelor’s degree? But in recent years, with the introduction of GoPros, smartphones and accessible encryption techniques, a new kind of vigilante…