With iReport.com, CNN Gets Into Citizen Journalism Online
With iReport.com expected to launch soon [Via], CNN plans to enter YouTube territory - a new site built entirely on user-produced news, and in true user generated content model, the new site will be wide open, allowing users to post whatever content they choose.
Visitors to the site would be able to search for specific clips or sift through various news categories, such as politics or weather, while users also can rate and share clips and even embed them on their own sites.
In this, iReport.com also signals a change for CNN, which has always prided itself on accuracy and editorial judgment, and it would be interesting to see how the site evolves.
The site itself would be an extension of the iReport initiative that CNN had launched in 2006, which since then has received nearly 100,000 news-related photos and videos from viewers, fewer than 10% of which have appeared on CNN.com or the cable channel.
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