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Anonymity is a privilege in journalism extended to sources and sometimes even to award winners. Last week, a George Polk Award was given for an image of the violent death of an Iranian woman during protests last year. The man who first uploaded the video is anonymous, as are the man who captured the footage on a camera phone and the doctor who sent the video clip by e-mail with the message ''please let the world know.'' The uploader learned only last week that he had played a role in one of the highest honors in journalism, by reading an article about it on the Internet. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

''We are uncomfortable with the term 'citizen journalism,' '' said Todd Wolfson, 35, a doctoral candidate at the University of Pennsylvania and one of the organizers of the Media Mobilizing Project in Philadelphia. ''We prefer the term 'community journalism.' '' Citizen journalism has become the faddish name for the effort to encourage regular folk to use the Internet to report the news directly, but Mr. Wolfson had a point: many of the people whom his organization and an immigrant rights group, Juntos, are teaching to make video reports for streaming on the Internet are not citizens. Many are not even legal residents. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]