Eyewitness journalists

Washington Post Foreign Service: Regular Folks, Shooting History. Digital Technology Makes 'Citizen Journalists' Out of Eyewitnesses Eager to Click and Post. (Photo of Imelda Marcos, transmitted by the AP)

The rapid rise of digital technology, which enables ordinary people almost anywhere to record images and post them quickly on the Internet, is changing the way the world witnesses history, not to mention the dependable misbehavior of celebrities. Events that once were recorded only by human memory may now endure in full, pixelated detail, available in seconds around the globe. ...