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RNN has been a global source of Egyptian revolution-related news since its launch. During the early days of the citizen uprisings across the Middle East, major networks such as BBC, Reuters, Al Jazeera and Al Arabiya used some of Rassd's news and photos, and followed the network on Twitter. Three
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RNN is an organized citizen news network with four working committees; one for editing the news, another to support the correspondents covering Egypt, a third for managing the multimedia feeds and a fourth for staff functions such as development, training and public relations. RNN's Arabic name,
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RNN has endured closures of their Facebook profile and YouTube account as part of the attacks from private media, attempting to thwart their work and influence their content.
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Ahmed Amin, Amr Salama Elqazaz,Amr Farrag,Khaled Noureldin ,Abdullah Alfakharany, Samhy Mostafa , Khaled faheem
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Rassd, is an acronym that stands for Rakeb (observe), Sawwer (record) and Dawwen (blog). RNN created a
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feed and launched an independent website dedicated to short news stories favored by an
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channel on January 27, 2011, and a YouTube account a month later.
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model is evidenced in its recent local network expansion into
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through its Facebook page. Then on February 5, 2011,
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