Mediagazer: Citizen journalists report Sierra Leone elections by SMS (Sarah Marshall/Journalism.co.uk)

2:45 AM ET, November 24, 2012

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Sarah Marshall / Journalism.co.uk:

Citizen journalists report Sierra Leone elections by SMS — Connecting citizens in a country where ‘more people have a mobile phone than have electricity’, with editors and the online world — Copyright: Image by kiwanja on Flickr. Some rights reserved — On Saturday Sierra Leone went to the polls.

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