A police officer grabs the cell phone you used to film him kicking a suspect in handcuffs. You photograph a violent clash between protesters and the military in your town, or a stray bullet puts you in the hospital for weeks, A person you caught on a video posted to...
The good: a fireball streaks across Russia’s dawn sky and the world learns of it through the dash cam videos uploaded by commuters. The bad: An unedited, user submitted story goes viral, terrifies readers and embarrasses a leading news outlet. The ugly: Syrian...
Coming soon to a blue sky near you: plume after plume of jet contrails, spreading out in a swath so wide the local weather report calls them a “weather front.” But the barometer hasn’t changed, and there’s no rain in sight, just a dimming of the sun and a rise in the...
Trafficking in persons is widely considered tantamount to modern-day slavery. According to the U.S. Department of State Trafficking in Persons (TIP) Report 2013, 600,000 to 800,000 individuals are trafficked across international borders each year—more than half of...
From the end of World War II, through the Cold War, the fall of the Soviet Empire and even to this day, the United States has commonly been called “The World’s Policeman.” It’s not always a compliment and is actually being rebuked from those on...
[icon icontype=”icon-tools”]For the average American, who only seeks out television and newspapers to stay informed, there may be little difference at first glance between the U.S. Army under the command of George W. Bush and that of Barack H. Obama. But...
It sounds like the plot of an Agatha Christie novel: a bunch of banking professionals from high-profile companies die under strange circumstances in the space of mere weeks. The rash of apparent suicides and unresolved deaths of employees of JP Morgan and other...
When stalking cases hit the headlines, there’s usually a celebrity involved. But recent statistics reveal that every year, 1 million women and nearly 400,000 men become victims of stalkers. And increasingly, those incidents involve cyberstalking – stalking behavior...
Did you know that January 13 – 17 was Identity Theft Awareness Week? If you didn’t, you aren’t alone. Turns out that although ID theft losses top $20 billion annually, most Americans really don’t know much about it – or how to protect themselves from becoming victims....
As the world wades further and further into the Information Age, the definition of a journalist has continued morphing at a faster rate than ever. So what is a journalist? Is it a person acting as a watchdog of the government, or a spokesman for it? Is it a member of...
