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Following are some suggested resources for people interested in Citizen Journalism. Please feel free to contact us if you have any question or comment. Thanks!

• Audacity is free, open source software for recording and editing sounds. It is available for Mac OS X, Microsoft Windows, GNU/Linux, and other operating systems.
• Avidemux - Avidemux is a free video editor designed for simple cutting, filtering and encoding tasks. It supports many file types, including AVI, DVD compatible MPEG files, MP4 and ASF, using a variety of codecs. Tasks can be automated using projects, job queue and powerful scripting capabilities. Avidemux is available for Linux, BSD, Mac OS X and Microsoft Windows under the GNU GPL license. The program was written from scratch by Mean, but code from other people and projects has been used as well. Patches, translations and even bug reports are always welcome.
• GIMP - GIMP is a multi-platform photo manipulation tool. GIMP is an acronym for GNU Image Manipulation Program. The GIMP is suitable for a variety of image manipulation tasks, including photo retouching, image composition, and image construction.
   
  GIMP has many capabilities. It can be used as a simple paint program, an expert quality photo retouching program, an online batch processing system, a mass production image renderer, an image format converter, etc.
   
  GIMP is expandable and extensible. It is designed to be augmented with plug-ins and extensions to do just about anything. The advanced scripting interface allows everything from the simplest task to the most complex image manipulation procedures to be easily scripted.
   
  One of The GIMP's strengths is its free availability from many sources for many operating systems. Most GNU/Linux distributions include The GIMP as a standard application. The GIMP is also available for other operating systems such as Microsoft Windows™ or Apple's Mac OS X™ (Darwin). The GIMP is a Free Software application covered by the General Public License [GPL]. The GPL provides users with the freedom to access and alter the source code that makes up computer programs.
• BBC News Styleguide: Avoid clichés and improve your journalism with this PDF version of the BBC News Styleguide. The Guide gives practical suggestions on many aspects of journalism style, including abbreviations, clichés, reported speech - and how to avoid irritating your editor.
• BBC Editorial Guidelines - 
• Assam Times: online newspapers, contributed by Citizen Journalists from all over Assam. You may too send in your news and features from your area and become a CJ.
• Shillong.com: online community portal, with news and features.
• NagalandExpress.com - Community news from Nagaland promoting Citizen Journalism 

Citizen Journalism - What is it ?

A very interesting short video explaining what grassroots, citizen journalism is. The video includes some interesting contributions and examples of what citizen reporting may be all about.

Some reading materials

• A crash course on citizen journalism
• Time's Person of the Year: You
• What is News? - a short presentation, based on The Gully - online magazine

From the recent workshops

• Listen to an audio interview conducted during the Workshop on Citizen Journalism and New Media at Shillong.
• View some photographs clicked during the event in Guwahati and Shillong