Hello im Richard Gaisford youre watching a special edition of the listening post on a new kind of reporting open source journalism citizen journalism allows anybody with a mobile phone to document a news story to produce content that is now routinely used by news organizations open source journalists often start with that kind of material and then they apply some of the same investigative techniques that are used by police and intelligence agents so this is a growth industry partly because of declining press freedom in some hostile place. In china for instance open Source Researchers have proven the existence and the location of socalled reeducation camps for muslims in the province of shin jack and they broke those stories long before Mainstream Media outlets to open source reporters have also proved valuable on the story in syria where at least 10 media workers were killed in 2018 and they did so without having to go there and take the risks that come with that a sign. Weve had 2 pro