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		<title>Escape from New York &#8211; The Flight of the Culture Vultures</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 22 Sep 2011 19:31:01 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[After flying through the night over an ocean of darkness, New York City approached like a glowing beacon splitting the skyline. It looked like everything I had envisaged after seeing thousands of iconic images on television, art works and postcards. The moment I first approached the city I had obsessed over for years previous, was [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ronanokelly.wordpress.com&amp;blog=7567787&amp;post=92&amp;subd=ronanokelly&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Irish Indypendent</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 05 May 2009 15:31:52 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This post is in relation to a posting by Ruth Hogan about the website indymedia.com. Her post can be found here. Indymedia does have distinct advantages in it&#8217;s ability to sift through the various regions allowing for a more native approach to the news. Citizen journalism and independent news is a rare thing in Ireland, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ronanokelly.wordpress.com&amp;blog=7567787&amp;post=78&amp;subd=ronanokelly&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Could online journalism usurp the newspapers crown?</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 05 May 2009 10:56:07 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The following post is in response to a blog entry by David Kearns about the decline of the American newspaper., which can be found here As is evident from the Google map in David&#8217;s post, the newspaper has been having a difficult time as of late. The last fiscal year was the worst ever recorded [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ronanokelly.wordpress.com&amp;blog=7567787&amp;post=76&amp;subd=ronanokelly&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Power of Citizen Journalism</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 05 May 2009 09:55:47 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[One of the most prominent ongoing stories in the news this year is the death of a G20 protester in London. The man&#8217;s death was initally thought to be due to a heart attack, however internal bleeding was later proved to be the actual cause after a video taken by a citizen journalist was released [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ronanokelly.wordpress.com&amp;blog=7567787&amp;post=72&amp;subd=ronanokelly&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Wikinews</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 05 May 2009 09:08:02 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Wikinews is a free content news source wiki from the Wikimedia corpotartion (the brains behind Wikipedia).  The idea is much the same as Wikipedia in that users can write and edit their own news stories to create a collaborativly written news site. Users, under the watchful eye of site moderators, can write and edit news [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ronanokelly.wordpress.com&amp;blog=7567787&amp;post=63&amp;subd=ronanokelly&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Is there a place for tweets in journalism?</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 05 May 2009 08:32:45 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Over the last few months there has been a new social networking force gaining a serious foothold in the mainstream social media. The unfortunately named Twitter is a 140 word micro-blog used to create personal updates about the user. Twittering has evolved beyond the realms of many social networking tools on the web and actually [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ronanokelly.wordpress.com&amp;blog=7567787&amp;post=59&amp;subd=ronanokelly&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Code of Ethics for Bloggers</title>
		<link>http://ronanokelly.wordpress.com/2009/05/04/code-of-ethics-for-bloggers/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 04 May 2009 18:58:11 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The mainstream media has a set of rules and guidelines that set out how a journalist should go about thier profession and the standards and ethichs that they should adhere to. While thousands of journalists all over the world agree to uphold this code of ethics, they do not necessarily apply to citizen journalism and [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ronanokelly.wordpress.com&amp;blog=7567787&amp;post=55&amp;subd=ronanokelly&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Transparency in Citizen Journalism</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 04 May 2009 18:30:48 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I was extremely surprised to read an article in the Online Journalism Review which said that more and more people were begginning to see citizen journalism as their most trusted news source. While one would imagine that since there are no editors or fast-chekers in this kind of media that their reliability might fall short [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ronanokelly.wordpress.com&amp;blog=7567787&amp;post=52&amp;subd=ronanokelly&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Failures of Citizen Journalism</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 04 May 2009 18:00:06 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I found an article published by Tom Grubisich which can be found here. The article reviewed ten different citizen journalism sites ans judged them by their quality and content. The study found that these new citizen journalism sites fell short of the standards expected for news sites. This survey was taken in 2005. IBrattleboro: One [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ronanokelly.wordpress.com&amp;blog=7567787&amp;post=48&amp;subd=ronanokelly&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Where Is Raed?</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 01 May 2009 09:10:18 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I’m sure I am very far behind the times, but I have only recently discovered an extremely powerful and poignant blog called “Where is Raed?‘. This blog gives an amazing and extremely humanistic perspective on how everyday life in Baghdad was affected during the U.S. invasion and occupancy of the city. The blogger, Salam Pax, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ronanokelly.wordpress.com&amp;blog=7567787&amp;post=31&amp;subd=ronanokelly&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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