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    • Jasmine for Syria's Local Coordinations Committee
      Syrian Citizen Journalists and Activists Capture 2012 Netizen Prize
      by Reporters Without Borders / March 21, 2012

      This year’s Reporters Without Borders Netizen Prize was awarded to Syrian citizen journalists and activists. The Media Center of the Local Coordination Committees brings together groups of citizen journalists to collect and disseminate, in real time, information and images of Syria’s uprising.

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    • World Day Against Cybercensorship
      Netizen Prize 2012 Nominees
      by Reporters Without Borders / March 9, 2012

      Launched by Reporters Without Borders in 2008, World Day Against Cyber-Censorship (on March 12, 2012) is intended to rally everyone in support of a single Internet without restrictions that is accessible to all.

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    • Syria
      Journalists Killed in Syria: The Social Media Reaction
      by Brody Engelhard / March 1, 2012

      A selection of statements, views and information posted to social media outlets as the news that The Sunday Times reporter Marie Colvin, French photojournalist Rémy Ochlyc, and Rami al-Sayed, a Syrian citizen journalist, had been killed during shelling in the city of Homs.

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    • The Weekly Digest: Dermot Bolger, Turkmenistan, Egypt
      by Sampsonia Way / October 30, 2011

      The Weekly Digest — a round-up of Sampsonia Way’s top stories — is your source for quality weekend reading.

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    • Turkmenistan: Citizen Journalism Emerges in a Silenced Country
      by Laura VanVliet / October 27, 2011

      Turkmenistan has the world’s third most suppressed media, followed only by North Korea and Eritrea. However, the coverage of a deadly explosion marked the unprecedented emergence of citizen journalism in one of the world’s most isolated countries.

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      by Sampsonia Way / May 16, 2013
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      by Bina Shah / April 30, 2013
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      by Hamdy El-Gazzar / April 22, 2013
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      by Hamdy El-Gazzar / April 8, 2013
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      by Rachel Webber / March 25, 2013
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