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Crowdmapping Media Layoffs in Greece

Categories: Western Europe, Greece, Citizen Media, Economics & Business, Labor, Media & Journalism

Journalist Ioanna Iliadi has created a crowdmap to monitor press layoffs [1] in Greece, mounting in numbers and frequency, as an already brewing media crisis has been compounded by the financial crisis.

@ioann_A [2]Παίζοντας με εργαλεία crowdsourcing έφτιαξα βάση για τις απολύσεις στον Τύπο https://journalistsgr.crowdmap.com/ #rbnews Ελάτε να το κάνουμε μαζί

@ioann_A [2]: While playing with crowdsourcing tools, I built a database on press layoffs https://journalistsgr.crowdmap.com/ #rbnews Let's do it together

Journalists have increasingly been using blogs [3] [el] and social media [4] [el] to report on precarious and diminishing labor rights, as well as on stories that are underreported in mainstream Greek media.