We are Citizen Journalists

Throughout these three sessions, group of journalist from the Hibr journal held workshops under the name "Empowering Communities Through Media" in Halba. There, several active people obtained knowledge about how it is simple to any individual to be a bridge between the general society and any event happening. They are called citizen journalist and they utilized the web 2.0 such as twitter, Gmail, flickr and blog to spread the information or current events where no necessity to be a journalist is needed. Now they are up to write and publish any information that they might encounter in their daily life

As a group of participants of this workshop, we can clearly admit that after this workshop we are now able to develop our community throughout the media. We had the possibility of writing and publishing about the Halba roads situation, also in another session we interviewed the vice president of municipality about the electricity and the road blockage in Minie. In the third session, we learned the power of the image and video as a way to impress and to make a change in the world



Finally, media is a method through which we are able to spread awareness, and to enhance our society. Thanks for all Hibr members for giving us this opportunity