Al-Jazeera correspondent Ahman Mohyeldin shared his experiences reporting on the Egyptian revolution to students at Washington State University.
Questions:
1. What was it like being captured?
2. After having been imprisoned, are you nervous about going out as a reporter again? Is this just a risk that reporters must learn to deal with?
3. Any advice for aspiring journalists? What skills does it take to be an international reporter?
Mohyeldin highlighted the importance of emerging social media technology for both journalism and the success of the revolutions taking place throughout the Middle East. Rebels relied on social media websites like Twitter while the news stations utilized Twitter, Facebook, blogs and traditional formats to spread the news of events taking place in the Middle East.
"These are the first revolutions to be powered by information. People are aware of the rights that they are being denied and are more empowered because they know what is being denied."
"A lot of journalism is being in the right place at the right time with the skills to take advantage of it."
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