This story is significant in that it is not just reporting on CNN's inability to keep up with breaking news, and its need to find a way to make user-generated content profitable (for them, not the users) but also for the way in which we are able to click back to original source materials through links rather than read oblique references. However, one link leads back to a page that is no longer available. This happens due to newspapers shifting content to other databases or behind pay wall archives--a continual problem for researchers. This should not necessarily reflect on the journalistic merits of the piece.

The story presents an interesting development in citizen journalism and maybe citizen trash, we shall see. It is scary that it may create motivation to spend more time there on the web than I now do.

ditto Kaizar

Informative report on CNN's new i-Report site.

Could it be that mainstream media is just discovering the importance of citizens' opinions and their inputs in what needs to be reported??? Nah! The main motif must still be the $... but a great experiment nonetheless. I blame NewsTrust

In the overall picture, it is hard to tell the importance of this news. Strictly from a trust perspective, there are plenty of links and enough information to recommend it as an article.