Looking Back at a Year of Training Citizen Journalists in South Africa

RT @mediatwit: Harry Dugmore: Looking Back at a Year of Training Citizen
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If you want to see citizen journalism in action -- not to mention
provoking action -- take a look at this collection of stories by citizen
journalists who have completed a six-week course in the Grocott's Mail
Citizen Journalism Newsroom.

That page features 12 stories about a critical but little-covered topic
that goes to the heart of the divergent experiences of living in
Grahamstown, South Africa. The topic? Waste management. Perhaps it's
hardly a prepossessing topic, but it's one that was embraced by the first
group of adult Citizen Journalists to be trained in the Iindaba Ziyafika
("The news is coming") Citizen Journalism Newsroom.