The-Latest.Com was founded in January 2006, as Britain's first dedicated citizen journalism website, by Marc Wadsworth, who is the editor. It has constantly updated 'ticker tape' national and international news and facilities for members to post their own blogs as well as book and entertainment reviews.
Video streaming and MP3 music is also available alongside instant polls on topical subjects open to all our visitors. Events listings can be emailed to The-Latest for inclusion on the site.
Our wide-ranging text and image content, provided by professional journalists and others who are member contributors, includes entertainment, music, world, general and community news, interviews and fun barmy categories.
Members can take part in forum discussions and comment on stories and blogs. An 'Image Galleries' section is also available so that members can upload interesting pictures and even showcase photos in their own personalised section. Our members have gone on to work for a variety of news media organisations.
We have pulled off notable scoops, including the one that led to the firing of the Mayor of London's spin doctor James McGrath which went global http://www.the-latest.com/the-latest-forces-sacking-of-race-gaffe-mayors-aide [0]. Press Gazette, the trade paper of the British newspaper industry, headlined an article about McGrathgate: 'Citizen journalism takes first UK scalp'.
We have also:
- Campaigned against a Jamaica-based cyberstalker
- Helped the families of murdered tourists Scarlett Keeling and Stephen Bennett in their fight for justice
- Exposed mismanagement and corruption in the health service and art world
- Uncovered city hall cronyism and sleaze
See what notable people have to say about the site: http://www.the-latest.com/testimonial [0]
Whether a news junkie or casual browser, the site is for YOU. It is a people's website with information the rest of the news media has either ignored or forgotten.
We'll help you have fun ferreting out the facts, writing stories as well as taking pictures and posting the results on the Internet for all to view. No longer do we have to make unheeded demands of the BBC or put ourselves at the mercy of greedy media tycoons like Rupert Murdoch to be heard. Public participation in The-Latest citizen journalism will ensure that we deliver your news agenda of choice, will always question 'the official line' of powerful organisations and expose their lies, vice and folly.
Your Website
Feel free to put your news blog on our website (http://www.the-latest.com/how-to-blog [0]). Or upload newsy photos and videos from your camera phone: a celeb you spotted, a news event you captured. London-based professional journalists will edit your contribution so that you have something to be proud of and can keep in your portfolio as published work. If we are able to sell on your contribution, you will be rewarded financially.
The-Latest.Com is not primarily a news conduit for the mainstream media but an alternative space for a public cheesed off with the narrow, biased agenda of the press and broadcast editors. Newspapers and Tv stations would like citizen journalism to be just intrepid digital camera-wielding, unpaid members of the public beefing up their tired newsgathering operations rather than an independent, mass-participatory people's website. Here is some advice on how to find news: http://www.the-latest.com/how-to-get-stories [0]
Huge historical events have been recorded by vigilant members of the public. Remember that the explosive pictures of Rodney King being beaten by Los Angeles police were caught on amateur video. And much of the dramatic evidence in the investigation of 7/7 and the 'terrorist attack' on America of 9/11 came from people's camera phones and amateur video as did shocking images of the Asian tsunami and, in 2008, the Chinese earthquake and disaster in Myanmar (Burma).
The-Latest is proud of our news scoops and eyewitness citizen reporting from Jordan, India, China, the Democratic Republic of Congo, Nigeria, Sudan's war-torn Darfur region, Beirut and the troubles in Kenya, South Africa and Zimbabwe, Romania and Poland. We also covered the historic battle between Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton for the Democratic Party nomination to be American President in an unrivalled alternative way. We are doing the same for the race to the White House between Obama and John McCain.
Our website has useful links to other sites. And, for subscribers, we provide handy journalism advice. For instance, we have lucrative tips on how to successfully sell a story or a picture through The-Latest to a major news outlet (http://www.the-latest.com/latest-offer [0]).
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