Citizen Journalism

Mainstream Media, MoveOn, Ignored Iraq Veterans' 'Winter Soldier' Investigation

by John Stauber — March 13, 2008 - 4:30pm

Kelly Dougherty, the former sergeant who is the executive director of Iraq Veterans Against the War (IVAW), announced on March 13th the start of the group's three-day Winter Soldier: Iraq and Afghanistan investigation into the United States' conduct of its wars, featuring testimony of scores of anti-war veterans.

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Irag Veterans Against the War, March 13, 2008

Citizen-Driven Superdelegate Transparency Project Provides Best Superdelegate Reporting - Anywhere

by Conor Kenny — March 6, 2008 - 3:21pm
  • Topics: Superdelegates 2008, Citizen Journalism, Election 2008, Democracy

    • The motley crew of citizen journalists, activists, bloggers and transparency advocates that make up the Superdelegate Transparency Project (STP) have produced the best, most transparent and highly detailed reporting on the Democratic superdelegates - anywhere. Through collaborative research with nearly 300 citizen journalists, the folks at DemConWatch, LiteraryOutpost, the HuffPost's OffTheBus project, OpenLeft and CMD's Congresspedia have produced a tally that rivals or bests those of the major media outlets. The STP even breaks the numbers down by state and congressional district with ever-expanding bios of hundreds of superdelegates AND we now have a wicked-cool live-updating widget.

    Featured Participatory Project: Join Huffington Post Readers in More Superdelegate Muckraking on Congresspedia

    by Conor Kenny — March 5, 2008 - 9:21am

    As part of the ongoing collective research project on Congresspedia to track the "superdelegates" who may decide the Democratic nominee for president, our partners at the Huffington Post have enlisted hundreds of citizens to research some of the more obscure party officials in the ranks of the superdelegates.

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    Superdelegate Transparency Project on Congresspedia

    Featured Participatory Project: References, Please

    by Sheldon Rampton — February 27, 2008 - 2:22am

    On SourceWatch, our online wiki about "the names behind the news," we try to encourage a referencing policy which ensures that every piece of information in each article can be verified by a link to an authoritative source for that information. However, sometimes these references get left out.

    You can help improve SourceWatch goal by identifying articles that need better referencing and tagging them for further work. All it takes is a few minutes.

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    SourceWatch

    Barn Raising Day for Superdelegate Transparency

    by Sheldon Rampton — February 20, 2008 - 8:00am

    Since the Superdelegate Transparency Project launched on Congresspedia last week, dozens of people have helped flesh out the facts about the so-called "superdelegates" whose votes may determine whether Hillary Clinton or

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    Congresspedia's Superdelegate Transparency Project

    Featured Participatory Project: Tracking the Superdelegates in the Democratic Primary

    by Conor Kenny — February 12, 2008 - 11:03pm

    As Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama run neck-and-neck in the Democratic primary, a "brokered" convention is possible where the Democratic delegates cut deals and shift sides to give one candidate the threshold they need to gain the party's nomination.

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    Congresspedia's Superdelegate Transparency Project
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