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CNN adopts CJ model

Submitted by Rick on Tue, 02/12/2008 - 2:51pm.

Check this out:

CNN to Launch Completely User Generated News Site
Written by Josh Catone / February 11, 2008 11:43 AM

We've been writing a lot about the trend of media companies paying more attention to citizen journalism and amateur reporting tools. Perhaps no mainstream media outlet has done more to push citizen journalism into the spotlight over the past year than CNN. In August 2006, they launched the user generated content-focused i-Report feature on their web site, which has since attracted over 100,000 submissions from users, and last summer they held the first of two CNN-YouTube presidential debates, in which questions were submitted via YouTube. CNN is about to take their participation in amateur news reporting a big step forward with the planned launch of iReport.com, an entire portal dedicated to completely user generated news content.

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Fascinating

Submitted by stevenl on Wed, 02/13/2008 - 11:09pm.

All the more reason the keep Internet in wild cowboy country and away from the corpulent corporate boardroom guys.

Rick, you were ahead of the curve. And you deserve public credit for that.

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