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On November 6, 2009, Rachel Sterne gave a presentation at the TEDxEast conference in New York, an offshoot of the annual TED conference, which invites leading thinkers to share “world-changing” ideas with the public.

Sterne—who in 2006, at the age of 23, launched a citizen journalism site called GroundReport—began her talk by explaining that, until recently, news had been a primarily passive experience. But the Internet was changing that: People were “sharing information and organizing demonstrations through Facebook,” and Californians were “acting as the press themselves” by videotaping forest fires.

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