The democratisation of media continues apace: Since CNN embraced the citizen journalist movement in August 2006 with the launch of its iReport initiative, the news organization has received nearly 100,000 news-related photos and videos from viewers. Yet fewer than 10% of those submissions have appeared on CNN.com or the cable channel. That’s all about to…
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Let the people speak
French news channel France 24 has recently launched an interesting online project, The Observers,… to “enrich our coverage of international current affairs with eyewitness accounts from ”˜observers’- that’s to say those people who are at the heart of events. Videos, texts, photos- none of the content is produced by professional journalists – but everything is…