{"id":609,"date":"2013-03-04T11:09:20","date_gmt":"2013-03-04T18:09:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/dannyfisher\/?p=609"},"modified":"2013-03-04T11:24:14","modified_gmt":"2013-03-04T18:24:14","slug":"guest-post-joshua-eaton-on-the-new-journalism-platform-tibet-on-fire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/dannyfisher\/2013\/03\/guest-post-joshua-eaton-on-the-new-journalism-platform-tibet-on-fire\/","title":{"rendered":"GUEST POST: Joshua Eaton on the New Journalism Platform “Tibet On Fire”"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<\/head>

\"\"<\/a>Today we present a guest post written by my friend Joshua Eaton<\/a><\/strong>, who will tell us about his exciting new journalism platform Tibet on Fire<\/a><\/strong>.<\/em><\/p>\n

At this point, Joshua should require no introduction at this blog. But just in case: Joshua is\u00a0the\u00a0editor, writer, and translator who founded the visionary\u00a0Dana Wiki<\/a>\u00a0(www.danawiki.org<\/a>) \u2014 an\u00a0online resource meant to aid Buddhist<\/a> Americans in community service work. A graduate of the\u00a0Master of Divinity in Buddhist Studies program at the Harvard Divinity School, he also served as editor-in-chief of\u00a0<\/em>Cult\/ure: The Graduate Journal of Harvard Divinity School<\/a>\u00a0during his time at the institution.\u00a0Today, among other things, he is a contributing scholar at the\u00a0Journal of Inter-Religious Dialogue\u2019s\u00a0State of Formation<\/a>. Joshua is also an active, must-follow Twitterer\u00a0@joshua_eaton<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n

I\u2019ve also interviewed Joshua twice \u2014 once for\u00a0<\/em>Shambhala Sun\u00a0Space<\/em><\/a>, and once for\u00a0this blog<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n

In addition, Joshua and I collaborated last year on an\u00a0open letter from Buddhist teachers and scholars and others on\u00a0Islamophobia at\u00a0buddhistletteronislamophobia.wordpress.com<\/a>. He authored the letter \u2014 though a few of us offered little tweaks and edits \u2014 and I put together the website and helped him get the word out and generate signatures.<\/em><\/p>\n

In addition to Tibet On Fire, Joshua is currently\u00a0collaborating with Al Jazeera English on an interactive map of self-immolations in Tibet that will use use Tibet on Fire\u2019s data. (The Tibetan Center for Human Rights and Democracy and the international NGO Free Tibet have already used some of their data, as well.) We\u2019ll have more on Joshua\u2019s work as it develops. In the meantime, here he is to tell us a bit about where things are now\u2026<\/em><\/p>\n

Over 107 Tibetans have set themselves on fire since February 2009 to protest Chinese rule. Thousands more have demonstrated in the streets. Thousands have been arrested, detained, and disappeared. And it all has a long and complex backstory: land grabs, forced resettlement, language restrictions, religious repression, and more.<\/p>\n

That\u2019s a lot to take in. To make things worse, the news about Tibet is scattered across so many sources, most of which are little known and hard to find.<\/p>\n

Tibet on Fire<\/a>\u00a0is a new journalism platform that aims to fix those problems by bringing the news about the crisis in Tibet together in a way that helps make sense of it.
\nWe\u2019ve already begun the task of collecting and verifying information about what\u2019s going on in Tibet from news sources, NGOs, Tibetan and Chinese blogs, government sources, and social media.<\/p>\n

Here\u2019s some of the information we\u2019ve collected together, which we\u2019re constantly updating:<\/p>\n