Signal is the latest citizen journalist application from the Middle East

The Lebanese entrepreneur, Mark Malkoun, invented an application for phones called Signal. He said he was insprired to create the app Signal “ by the Arab Spring, and more precisely from a personal desire to get a simple way of seeing what’s happening around you straight from the people. Users are already using their cell phones to take pictures of interesting things they encounter and posting them to social networks, or sending them to traditional news corporation like CNN iReport.” It is reported that the app is going to be for iPhone users in Lebanon this month and later for Andriod users. This app will eventually expand to other countries and other languages as time goes on. One thing I like about this app is that people get to vote on what things they think are important or interesting. This makes the top stories come up first and the least relevant stories won't be shown. I feel like this app is going to be very sucessful and people are going to be using it a lot. The only thing I fear is that people might not be getting the correct information all the time. People need to think and not just believe everything they read. I also think this is something good that came out of the Arab Spring. People now are more united and get a chance of reporting what they think is news worthy. I think in the future we might not have real news reporters on the scene anymore because anyone can upload pictures and videos. The future of how we recieve our media is changing and this is just the start of it!

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