Example one:
The Hudson Landing
The first image of Captain Chesley Sullenberger's dramatic landing on the Hudson river on Jan. 15 came not from the New York Times or the AP, but from the Twitter account of a man who just happened to be there. Janis Krums tweeted a picture he took on his cell phone as he ferried over to help the stranded passengers. A half hour later, Krums was interviewed by MSNBC. He sold his iconic shot to the AP and it was soon shopped to publications across the country.
Example two:
Inspired by CNBC anchor Rick Santelli's on-airoutburst against the Obama administration's bailout of the mortgage industry, conservatives organized hundreds of Tea Party protests across the country on April 15th. With no single publication able to cover so many protests, sites like Now Public and our own HuffPost Eye&Ears Citizen Reporting Unitcrowdsourced their coverage, offering thousands of photos, video and blogs from across the country.
Example three:
The Shooting at Fort Hood
The dramatic Nov. 5 shooting at Ford Hood claimed immediate national attention and dominated Twitter and the blogosphere. Texas-based newspaper, theAustin-American Statesman launched a Twitteraccount devoted to the unfolding story, and outlets like CNN and the Today Show jumped on the newly-launched Twitter lists feature to provide directed, immediate information. Many tweets were inaccurate. Tearah Moore, a soldier based at Fort Hood who happened to be in the hospital as gunman Nidal Hasan was wheeled in, mistakenly declared Hasan dead on Twitter.
Example four
The town hall debates over health care reform attracted protesters of all stripes - angry and excited, politically extreme and middle-of-the road. The figureheads were conservative personalities like Sarah Palin and Michelle Malkin, whose supporters disrupted the scheduled health care discussions with impassioned and often bizarre claims. Online news organizations like Media Consortium andHuffPost's E&E assigned citizen journalists to report from town hall events, capturing inane commentsfrom politicians and public officials crossing the line with their protest signs -- like Jackson County Commissioner who brought this swastika only to cross it out receiving criticism.
Example five
On October 24th of this year, more than 5000 communities around the world came together to call for the reduction in carbon levels to the safe spot of 350 parts-per-million in the atmosphere. The effort marks the world's "most widespread day of political action," according to 350.org organizers, and was primarily orchestrated online with instruction manuals and jointly-managed schedules. Participants uploaded videos and images of their demonstrations on crowd-sourced sites Flickr andCitizenGlobal, inspiring major media coverage.
Example six
Zapruder, a woman’s clothing manufacturer, captured the 1963 assassination of John F. Kennedy and started a fierce bidding war for the footage.
Example seven
Whilst on holiday, a manager at a plumbing and rooting company, fired up his Sony Handycam on March 3, 1991 to record four Los Angeles policemen brutally beating up Rodney King.
Example eight
On April 4, Santana recorded a former South Carolina policeman shooting and killing the unarmed Michael Scott.
Example nine
Moore recorded Freddie Gray requesting medical attention in mid-April while under police custody — and being ignored hours before he died in the custody of Baltimore policemen.
Example ten
A gut-wrenching mobile video clip depicting South Carolina police officer Michael Slager killing Walter Scott went viral earlier this month. The bystander behind the footage, Feidin Santana, has partnered with celebrity publicity agency Markson Sparks to license the footage, causing a stir among those who claim he's profiting from a death. It was all over the news last week: Shaky cell phone footage shows officer Slager shooting an unarmed man who tried to flee a routine traffic stop on April 4th.
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