CNN to Launch Completely User Generated News Site

The new site, according to Mediaweek who got an advanced look at the site, will be completely open in terms of what users can upload. Users will be in charge of deciding what constitutes news, and which submissions should be removed from the site. "The community will decide what the news is," CNN News EVP Susan Grant told Mediaweek. "We are not going to discourage or encourage anything -- iReport will be completely unvetted." (Though CNN will monitor the ... Full Story »

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Ara Gregorian
3.4
by Ara Gregorian - Oct. 1, 2008

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

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