Twitter has struck again.

A passenger on one of the ferries that helped rescue passengers of the U.S. Airways jet that ditched in the Hudson River on Thursday took a photo that has taken the Internet by storm.

Janis Krums, of Sarasota, Fla., used his iPhone to snap a picture of passengers huddled on the jet's wing, then posted it on TwitPic.com.

On Twitter, Krums posted the following: “There's a plane in the Hudson. I'm on the ferry going to pick up the people. Crazy.”

Within a few hours, thousands of web surfers had viewed the photo, the New York Daily News reported. Many mainstream news sites created links to the picture, and all the traffic eventually caused TwitPic to crash.

The Associated Press even purchased the rights to the photo. You can see Krums' photo as it appeared on several front pages here.

Krum was later interviewed on "Good Morning America" and MSNBC.

Citizne journalists, many of them using Twitter, played a key role in coverage of the Mumbai terror attacks in November.

Israeli tanks head towards Gaza along the Gaza-Israeli border in Israel.

As the conflict in the Middle East flares up, it's important, but sometimes difficult, to know where to turn for solid news and analysis about the latest developments there.

Fortunately, there are plenty of sites available. Here are some of the best to turn to for hard-news coverage:

• The New York Times
• BBC
• The Associated Press
• Reuters

You can also get a more local perspective by checking out sites from the region, many of which are in English. Here are a few:

• The Jerusalem Post
• Al Jazeera

As always, you can find dozens of news sources in our Virtual Newsroom.

Photo by Spencer Platt/Getty Images

The Alfred I. DuPont-Columbia University Awards for broadcast journalism were announced Monday, and the top honor - the "Gold Baton" - went to WFAA-TV in Dallas for its investigative reports on corruption at the Export-Import bank of the United States, grade changing for failing high school athletes, and the danger posed by aging gas pipeline couplings.

It's the first time a local station has won a Gold Baton in that award’s 20-year history.

Other winners included CNN & Christiane Amanpour for "God’s Warriors," a six-hour documentary series on the rise of religious fundamentalism; NPR for its coverage of the Chengdu earthquake; and ABC News and "Nightline" for its look at a U.S. army platoon battling the Taliban in eastern Afghanistan.

You can see the complete list of winners here.

CBS News Anchor Katie Couric will host the awards ceremony on Thursday, Jan. 22, at Columbia. ABC News’ Bob Woodruff interviewed several of the winners for the PBS program "Telling the Truth: The Best in Broadcast Journalism," premiering Jan. 15.

More bad news on the print journalism front (as if there wasn't enough already). The Seattle Post-Intelligencer reports it has been put up for sale by parent company Hearst Corp., and that if no one steps forward to buy the 146-year-old paper within 60 days, it will either become a web-only operation or be closed entirely.

Not surprisingly, Steven Swartz, president of The Hearst Corp.'s newspaper division, blamed economic reasons for the move. Hearst officials said the P-I, Washington state's oldest morning paper, lost about $14 million last year.

"One thing is clear: At the end of the sale process, we do not see ourselves publishing in print," Swartz told employees gathered in the newsroom. He added that if the P-I became a web-only operation, it would employ far fewer than the current 170 staffers.

Meanwhile, the Chicago Sun-Times is reportedly considering outsourcing 25 to 30 copy editing and layouts jobs to India. The Chicago Reader says the idea was floated at a Sun-Times Media Group meeting on Friday. The company said last week it was it was closing 12 of its suburban papers.