Alive in Baghdad is a blog that has recently been honoured with some awards. The premise is simple: Allow Iraqis to tell their own stories about trying to survive the current chaos.
An excerpt from the BBC story:
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Bomb survivors' video The site offers a series of short films documenting the lives of Iraqis in their own words.
These range from a piece on family men trying to protect their neighbourhood from death squads, to an interview with car bomb survivors. [Both are shown on this page.]
The founder of Alive in Baghdad is Brian Conley, a 26-year-old American journalist and film-maker.
He went to Baghdad and gave equipment and training to the small team of Iraqis who now produce a new short film every week.
Brian is now in Mexico, setting up a similar operation there.
He says he wanted to escape what he calls "live from" journalism.
"Essentially, there's something lost when you send someone from another part of the world, or with a specific audience in mind, to tell another individual's story.
Brian Conley is now setting up "Alive in Mexico""We are striving to build journalism in the voice of locals, so that people in different parts of the world can communicate almost directly to their audience around the world."
The footage is shot by Iraqis and edited in the United States.