[The United Nations Correspondent's Association has announced its awards for the best print and broadcast journalism about the UN in 2008. Following is an article published in OhmyNews International about the award I received from UNCA -Ronda]

OhmyNews International’s United Nations correspondent Ronda Hauben is the recipient of the 2008 Silver Elizabeth Neuffer Prize for Excellence in Journalism in print and online media. In awarding Hauben the silver prize, the judges wrote that it was for “interesting and provocative coverage of issues at the UN, notably about the consequences of the permanent five’s stranglehold on the Security Council.”

Hauben has reported from the UN for OhmyNews International since October 2006. In 2007 she was told she had been on the short list for an award. She won the award this year for articles she wrote between September 1, 2007 through August 31, 2008.

“Security Council Fails to Act… weiter lesen

Part I – Netizen Journalism Panel: The Internet, Netizens, and Journalism

[Note: In October, 2008 there was a panel about Netizen Journalism at the 9th annual conference of Internet researchers (IR9.0 is the tag) which was held in Copenhagen. Following is an abstract for the panel, and then a summary that Axel Bruns posted on his blog of the session. A slightly edited version of one of the talks at the panel, my talk about Candlelight 2008 in South Korea as an example of Watchdog Journalism, is online in an earlier post on my blog.]

In his pioneering research about the impact of the Internet, Michael Hauben recognized that the nature of the Net made possible a new form of citizenship, a participatory form that is oriented toward a public purpose. He called the people who were developing this new form of citizenship, netizens.(1)

What would be the… weiter lesen