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Who We Are
We’re a group of news junkies, citizen journalists and social media analysts from all around the world who got tired of the same old repetitive stories, misdirection and rhetoric coming from most mainstream news media. Our philosophy is simple, truth through crowd reporting and talking about what should matter in this world: People.

The Mission
We’ll always do our best to report important news and current events from all over the globe by trimming the fat and focus on the facts, in the spirit of better information and knowledge sharing. We strongly believe that in this shrinking world connected by so much technology, we all have the power to change the news, and the world!

Our Promise
We vow to always remain completely transparent, nonpartisan, objective and unbiased by letting the people’s voices be heard, absolutely free of any political affiliation, corporate control and we’ll only accept to advertise ethical, fair-trade businesses, non-profits and socially conscious companies.

Newsroom

Pierre-Marcel De Mussac

Publisher
Andreas Salmen

Editor-in-Chief/Journalist
Stuart Chapman

Managing Editor/Journalist
Martine Trottier

Web Editor/Social Media Manager
Patricia Abrihan

Associate Editor/Journalist
Syed Arzan Ali

Pakistan Editor/Journalist
Prashansha Singh

SMM/Journalist
Saad B. Murtaza

Correspondent/Journalist
Kanchan Sharma

Correspondent/Journalist
Arunopal Banerjee

Photojournalist
Nicoleta Miron

Producer/Activist Artist

On The Ground

Nimra Abbasi

Citizen Journalist
Haneen Abu Azoom

Citizen Journalist
Ahmed Adel

Citizen Journalist
Ibtesam Ahmed

Citizen Journalist
Aamir Ali

Citizen Journalist
Shagun Benipal

Citizen Journalist
Martina Blazheska

Citizen Journalist
Emily Clare

Citizen Journalist
Ian Fingado

Citizen Journalist
Trevohnn Garner

Citizen Journalist
Andrew Garrity

Citizen Journalist
Tarunima Ghosh

Citizen Journalist
Oliver Gosling

Citizen Journalist
Kane Govaert

Citizen Journalist
Imad Guemmah

Citizen Journalist
Nitin Gupta

Citizen Journalist
Peter Hjalmarsson

Citizen Journalist
Houda Salhi

Citizen Journalist
Anam Jalil Sheikh

Citizen Journalist
Hassan Javed

Citizen Journalist
Jasmine K. Kabir

Citizen Journalist
Sehrish Khawaja

Citizen Journalist
Giwrgos Kourakos

Citizen Journalist
Isabel Matos

Citizen Journalist
Ioana Miron

Citizen Journalist
Ahmed Moien

Citizen Journalist
Alex Myers

Citizen Journalist
Fazeel Naqvi

Citizen Journalist
Noah Richard

Citizen Journalist
Macey S. Saavedra

Citizen Journalist
Fariah Salahuddin

Citizen Journalist
Cheeno M. Sayuno

Citizen Journalist
Derek Schneck

Citizen Journalist
Sudeshna Sen

Citizen Journalist
Caleb Smith

Citizen Journalist

…and many contributors!

Pierre-Marcel De Mussac

Publisher

Pierre-Marcel manages the editorial board and day-to-day operations at CrowdH. He’s a tech and news junkie, as well as an avid social media analyst who’s always on the lookout for new stories to cover. Peter has been an entrepreneur for the past 15 years and he’s now dedicated to change the news, and the world!

Andreas Salmen

Editor-in-Chief/Journalist

Born and raised in Germany, learned a job in IT and Business and ultimately decided that this wasn’t exactly where my life was going to end. Left everything behind to become a writing backpacker instead. The world’s crumbling away anyway so why not write about it and get a few good Instagram pics on the way, am I right?

Stuart Chapman

Managing Editor/Journalist

Stuart is a current affairs connoisseur, picking and scratching at some of the more obscure, ambiguous topics that currently plague the political spectrum. As well as having considerable experience in the analytical art of nitpicking at pariah states and unworkable governments, Stuart manages our UK-based politics publication, and has recently launched his own copywriting start-up firm. As an active member of the Royal Society of Asian Affairs, he takes particular attention to the socio-economic conditions within the region, and enjoys writing opinion pieces within the Asiatic sphere. Outside the world of politics, Stuart enjoys drinking copious amounts of strong black coffee, and jogging at daybreak.

Martine Trottier

Web Editor/Social Media Manager

Martine is our french-canadian correspondent, web editor, social media manager and new media evangelist. She’s always scouring the web and social media for new stories, vital videos and important data to share with the world. Martine is also a savvy world traveler, having visited many countries on almost every continent, and she’s without a doubt, one of our most fierce truth seeker.

Patricia Abrihan

Associate Editor/Journalist

Patricia has always been inspired by the witty yet innocent voice of Harper Lee’s To Kill a Mockingbird that she believes that writing is able to revolutionize ideas of society. She is a former college instructor from the Philippines and is currently a freelance writer and blogger managing her portfolio. She is open to collaboration and also loves reading and watching movies.

Syed Arzan Ali

Pakistan Editor/Journalist

Arzan is a 24-years-old young and energetic guy from Karachi, Pakistan. He’s a fledgling journalist but a seasoned blogger. He loves to read thrilling novels, and classical poetry. Arzan also loves to watch and play cricket. Reading, writing and listening to music — these are what shape his personality.

Prashansha Singh

SMM/Journalist

Prashansha, or Prash, is a digital marketer and content writer from Kolkata, India. Prash is curious about everything and is fascinated by the power of words. She believes using the Right Words in the Right Place at the Right Time is the solution to most problems. She also helps businesses with their online marketing and promotion needs. Connect to her at DigitalMarketingSolution.net.

Saad B. Murtaza

Correspondent/Journalist

Saad is a journalist, researcher and new media strategist from Pakistan with around a decade of experience under his belt. He started his career with conventional investigative journalism but his love for new media technologies, thirst for knowledge and out of box thinking lead him to expand his horizon into new media strategies, data journalism and research.

Kanchan Sharma

Correspondent/Journalist

Kanchan is a 19-year-old young and energetic guy from Kathmandu, Nepal. His hobbies are but not limited to creative writing, journalism, debate and research. He started blogging since he was 14 and he plans on doing so for the rest of his life. He has been on-board at CrowdH since 2015.

Arunopal Banerjee

Photojournalist

Arunopal is a student of the 12th grade, in Kolkata, West Bengal, India. He loves photography and cooking, traveling a lot, and learning new things. Arunopal doesn’t like mugging up stuffs just to get marks, he loves to learn, loves to know, and he learns from every person he’s ever met.

Nicoleta Miron

Producer/Activist Artist

Nicoleta is a 19 year old artist from Romania who has recently graduated from high school. She enjoys taking in life experiences, emotions, the happiness and the pain, and turning them into wonderful art. Her unique vision allows her to create thought-provoking and inspiring activist artistic pieces about the most pressing social issues of our time. Through this process, Nicoleta takes pleasure in learning and understanding just a little bit more about the world around her, and herself.

Nimra Abbasi

Citizen Journalist

Nimra is an M.A English Literature degree holder from Karachi, Pakistan. She is a full time Mother of a toddler and part time writer. She also writes poems and stories. She has found the way to the heart of the people through her cooking skills. Unlike other housewives and mothers from her region, politics is one of her interests. She loves giving words to her feelings and ideas.

Haneen Abu Azoom

Citizen Journalist

Haneen is a 26 years old Palestinian woman from the Gaza Strip, Palestine. She has a bachelor degree in English Language and she’s currently doing her Masters degree in Methodology. Haneen works as freelance writer and translator in English and Arabic, and she has worked as teacher for English as a second language. She loves to read anything, her primary rule in life is to know and understand more and more every day.

Ahmed Adel

Citizen Journalist

Ahmed is an freshly graduated pharmacist from Egypt. He’s now preparing for his Canadian board exam and also work as a freelance translator and writer. Ahmed is interested in health and technology, and enjoys running and weight lifting.

Ibtesam Ahmed

Citizen Journalist

Ibtesam is an eager beaver trying to figure out his role in this topsy-turvy world. After graduation, he has opted to switch his field and pursue something where he could contribute, however little, to the wellbeing of others. He is an avid reader and is trying to bone up his skills on topics of his interest. He hopes that the least service he could do is that he could write a book of his own one day.

Aamir Ali

Citizen Journalist

Aamir is a freelance blogger, writer and journalist from the Gilgit-Baltistan division of Pakistan Administered Kashmir. Well famed on both sides of the control-line for his unbiased articles on the Kashmir conflict, Aamir is fluent in Wakhi-Pamiri, Hindi, Urdu and English.

Shagun Benipal

Citizen Journalist

Writer by day, reader by night, Shagun is known for her love of coins, old photographs and books. She loves to share her thoughts on politics, world and space.

Martina Blazheska

Citizen Journalist

Martina is a mechanical engineering student from Skopje, Macedonia. When she’s not drowning in homework, she likes to write articles. Her favorite things to write about are feminism, social justice, science, ecology and travel. Martina is fascinated with the influence of social media and hopes that her words can make a difference, no matter how big or small.

Emily Clare

Citizen Journalist

Emily is a woman of many hats! Born in England, Emily is a writer, specializing in matters pertaining to mental health and wellness. She is a graduate student of Cultural Anthropology at the University of Toronto. She is the Executive Director of the Gerladina Orphanage and Education Centre, located in Tanzania, where she visits as often as she can. She is an impassioned advocate for breed neutral laws for dogs, founding a virtual, international gathering place for dog lovers called United Paws, with an aim to fight together against breed discrimination worldwide, all inspired by her own dog, Bella, who Emily credits for changing the direction of her life. Emily is also a mother to a toddler and is currently working on a children’s book, inspired by Breed Specific Legislation.

Ian Fingado

Citizen Journalist

Ian is a humanitarian at heart with a B.S. In Environmental Science. He’s a pretty radical leftist, but there are still people to the left of him that think he’s the liberal version of a cuck. Ian likes pretentious arthouse films and reading about history on the beach while other people have fun around him. New Mexico native, and yes, his answer is green over red.

Trevohnn Garner

Citizen Journalist

Trevohnn is a 22 year old college student who lives for writing, singing, and doing as many bizarre things as humanly possible. Uncharted and Marvel Vs. Capcom are the absolute loves of his life, and he hopes one day his writing will influence or change the world. If he could change the life of one person though with his writings, that would be enough for him.

Andrew Garrity

Citizen Journalist

Andrew is a mining engineer, but his real passion is his dogs. He moved to Montreal from the US for work, and has since become dedicated to fighting against breed specific legislation and for the rights of all dogs to have a happy life. Dogs are almost literally the only thing this guy cares about. In his writing his goal is to raise awareness about and end the stigmas attached to both dogs of a certain breed (or appearance) and people suffering from mental illness.

Tarunima Ghosh

Citizen Journalist

Nature lover, full on romantic, voracious eater who cooks like your worst nightmare, fashion freak who creates a faux pas every time, globetrotter (only in dreams), mad about cats and dogs, obsessed selfie photographer – that pretty much sums up Tarunima Ghosh Laha in a nutshell. Nurturing her penchant for writing since toddling days, she has finally given in to her long subdued desire of becoming a writer by leaving a glamorous yet boring career in hardcore Finance.

Oliver Gosling

Citizen Journalist

Oliver is a secondary school ESL teacher and freelance writer, originally from the Lake District, England, he now lives in Hong Kong with his wife and 2 kids. He always stays on top of current affairs in the East, including but not limited to human rights, democracy, pop culture, the economy and green politics. Oliver’s diverse likes include lemon tea, chocolate and traveling everywhere around the Asian continent.

Kane Govaert

Citizen Journalist

Full time college student by day, programmer by night, Kane lives off ramen noodles and slays his keyboard like an maniac for fun.

Imad Guemmah

Citizen Journalist

Imad is a high school teacher, an experienced academic writer and translator from Morocco who is equally adored for his incisive articles and blog posts, which often take hard looks at a plethora of subjects, such as cultural studies, mass media, the philosophy of education and psychology. His work is always challenging and always thought-provoking. Imad can turn the most boring topics into a work of art worthy of being marveled at.

Nitin Gupta

Citizen Journalist

Nitin loves to read, write and speak up. Adores books, hates misogyny. Spreads love and inspires people. An extrovert, you can find him talking to people, through his mouth or his pen. You can read his blog at http://fictioninstyle.wordpress.com

Peter Hjalmarsson

Citizen Journalist

Peter is a Swedish former logistics professional with passion for the continent of Asia. He is currently living in the Philippines where he supports his addiction to native coffee and local microbrews by doing freelance writing while working on getting his own blog about his experiences of Filipino culture off the ground.

Houda Salhi

Citizen Journalist

Houda is a Moroccan freelance writer and computer science student from Al Akhawayn university. She loves exploring new topics and broadening her knowledge. Salhi’s hobbies include researching, traveling, and doing photography. She is someone who loves positive energy and has endless ambition.

Anam Jalil Sheikh

Citizen Journalist

Anam is a writer by passion and an entrepreneur by profession. She loves writing about topics that are close to her heart and hopes to become an internationally-acclaimed writer someday. Anam has an MSc in International Business And Entrepreneurship from the University of Glasgow and hopes to catch up on some travelling soon.

Hassan Javed

Citizen Journalist

Hassan is a Pakistani writer with a flair for analyzing current affairs and history especially that of Pakistan and South Asia. He is currently studying at the University of Gujrat. Hassan loves politics, history, travelling and is a tea-addict.

Jasmine K. Kabir

Citizen Journalist

Jasmine is a writer based in Mississauga, Ontario, Canada. When she is not writing, she enjoys baking cookies, trying different blends of hot chocolate, and going on long walks with her dog Tyson. She believes in health equality and regularly volunteers with health organizations within her community. Jasmine’s goal is to educate, engage, and empower with her words.

Sehrish Khawaja

Citizen Journalist

Sehrish is currently enrolled in a Bachelor in Business Administration program at the National University of Science and Technology. She aims to become is an aspiring entrepreneur, to bring in innovation and remove all social taboos. Sehrish pays keen attention to all the sociological problems emerging in society. Being a great protagonist of education, she finds it as the only solution for removal of all mankind’s problems.

Giwrgos Kourakos

Citizen Journalist

Giwrgos is currently a student at the University of Patras in Greece, majoring in mathematics. He has a degree in musical theory and about to take his degree in classical guitar. Giwrgos is also a journalist who writes news articles about current affairs, events and parties around the country. He loves to read books and hopes to write one some day. As a proud Greek, he also loves debates, conversations about politics, religion and so much more!

Isabel Matos

Citizen Journalist

Isabel is a Venezuelan translator that struggles to find a voice and to prosper in today’s political turmoil and tension. She is also an undergraduate English teacher and is currently pursuing a Master’s in English as a Foreign Language. Translator, teacher and always student, she is interested in how language shapes reality and how women and men negotiate power through discourse.

Ioana Miron

Citizen Journalist

Ioana grew up in Bucharest, Romania and recently finished her master’s degree in journalism, international cooperation and humanitarian aid from the National School of Political Science and Public Administration. She’s an extremely intelligent, motivated, self-reliant and creative young woman always on the prowl for injustice to expose. Ioana’s impressive thirst for knowledge is only surpassed by her kind and generous heart.

Ahmed Moien

Citizen Journalist

Ahmed has always found solace in good literature and has relished any accumulation of words, versed in a manner that surprises him. He has always found passion in writing and works on honing his skills while freelancing professional content for a little over a year now. He’s currently volunteering at a local animal shelter in Lahore, Pakistan. Their activities can be followed via the following Facebook page. Donations are always needed and highly appreciated!

Alex Myers

Citizen Journalist

Alex works full time in the tech industry and moonlights as a writer. When I’m not at work you might find me playing Street Fighter or watching John Wick. Alex is passionate about social justice, foreign policy, and laughing. Reach him on Twitter @AlexMyers_008 for a chat!

Fazeel Naqvi

Citizen Journalist

Fazeel is a 25 year old enthusiastic, passionate writer from Hyderabad, Pakistan, who has an eye on the current issues of the country, enjoys reading new stories and writes a few himself. He also likes to take long drives with music by himself.

Noah Richard

Citizen Journalist

Noah is a student at Florida State University in Tallahassee, Florida USA. He is pursuing a degree in digital marketing, he writes and maintains two affiliate marketing blogs. Noah recently started writing freelance articles covering a range of topics, his favorite topics including internet business opportunities and science/technology. His goal is to make his entire living online which would give him the freedom to travel the world. His other hobbies include exploring historical locations and saltwater fishing.

Macey S. Saavedra

Citizen Journalist

Macey is a wife and a mom who is at the learning curve of juggling parenthood and her professional career. Along with the challenges of raising a daughter, she currently works as a Marketing Executive in the Philippines and holds a Master’s Degree in Communication. She loves reading, watching films, and is a huge fan of author Haruki Murakami. Through writing, Macey aspires to create and disseminate relevant content that will help shape a well-informed society.

Fariah Salahuddin

Citizen Journalist

Fariah is a full-time freelance writer and blogger. Although, she’s a business student but still likes to explore new horizons of learning of various educational disciplines. Fariah spends most of her time researching and writing. Outside the web, she loves practicing calligraphy. Music, movies and outdoor activities are what keeps her entertained and her mind refreshed.

Cheeno M. Sayuno

Citizen Journalist

For Cheeno, writing is a responsibility: a promise to offer perspective that opens readers to new possibilities of viewing the world. A writer of children’s storybooks while teaching in a university in the Philippines, Cheeno finds passion in using the power of the pen to empower readers of all ages. He is on his way to obtain a PhD Communication degree and is an avid fan of Broadway musicals.

Derek Schneck

Citizen Journalist

Derek is an aspiring musician with a burning passion for the arts of word smithery. He spends most of his time toying with unconventional ideas, researching whatever comes to mind, and doing whatever it takes to break out of the Proletariat “regular guy” status. Derek truly believes the world to be warm and beautiful entity in the cosmos, and dreams of cultivating massive amounts of finances, so he can help the people around him as much as human limitation will allow.

Sudeshna Sen

Citizen Journalist

A romantic at heart (and a carnivore in terms of taste buds), Sudeshna discovered her flair for writing at a point in life that is almost embarrassingly late. A bibliophile, a lover of cricket and a fan of DC and Marvel superheroes, (who loves to talk in subtexts), she hopes to make it big in the finance industry.

Caleb Smith

Citizen Journalist

Caleb is a freelance writer and music student from the United States, with a passion for comic books, reading, and punk rock. He loves writing about often overlooked and under-reported stories to help raise awareness of social issues in America.