iReport.com

So I looked at looked at the cyberjournalist.net and followed a link to iReport.com and CNN.com. It turns out iReport.com is a place where people post news they see and CNN.com looks through the different postings and they place some of them on their website. CNN will censor some of the things they put on their website but nothing is censored on iReport.com. According to iReport.com they have had 89,900 reports worldwide and 915 of them were used on CNN.com last month. There is a lot of cool stuff on these sites and it shows how citizen journalists can cover more news than any one type of news organization. I am pretty sure it is all videos but it is a great place to find breaking news.

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After half a century of scholarly work, new documents about the lives of Julius and Ethel Rosenberg have been made public.

"Certainly, after 50 years, the unique historical value of these records outweighs any secrecy rationale," said Thomas S. Blanton, the director of the National Security Archive, which filed the petition, with support from more than a dozen scholars. The archive, based at George Washington University, is a nonprofit group that uses the Freedom of Information Act to challenge government secrecy.

Among the historians were John Lewis Gaddis, the Robert A. Lovett professor of military and naval history at Yale, and Ronald Radosh, adjunct senior fellow at the Hudson Institute in Washington and past president of the Historians of American Communism.