CNN’s user-generated news community, iReport will be incorporating an interactive challenge to its reporters to take a look at the year’s milestones in areas that may have effected their own lives in a 2009 year review called 365 days in 30 seconds. (more…)
In a first-time effort to develop an interactive user-friendly live event of the famous talk show host and humanitarian Oprah Winfrey is joining forces with CNN.com and Facebook to present an Oprah’s Book Club interactive web event.
The special event, which is set to take place on Monday, November 9, 2009 at 9pm ET/6pm PT, will be streamed live and simultaneously from CNN.com’s video player on both Oprah.com and CNN.com and will make use of Facebook Connect to allow participants to interact while viewing the webcast. (more…)
Networks scrambled to keep up with developing news while continuing to cover the world’s biggest stories last week as three high profile celebrities passed away, because of all the activity many stations relied on user-generated content (UGC) to round out their stories.
The biggest news in America last week was the passing of pop superstar Michael Jackson. The singer died at the age of 50 and news of his death spread rapidly across the Internet. Many Americans first heard of his death through a social network such as Twitter. For others it was on the evening news. But even if you were among those hearing it for the first time on the evening news, you likely still saw images, video or testimonials the network took from online users. (more…)
Indiconews.com has entered an increasingly crowded field of user-generated news sites as it aims to provide users with a real-time platform to broadcast their own news, to a global audience.
Similar to CNN’s iReport and NowPublic, Indiconews.com allows users the option to share their own news in a way they feel is most effective, on a social networking platform such as this one. (more…)
Fox News is expanding contact with its citizen journalists with the launch of uReport on its well known subsidiary, MySpace.
The uReport online presence will be a MySpace page that encourages users to tag photos and videos that tie them to specific Fox News stories. The MySpace page will be monitored by Fox News and images and video that are uploaded may appear on Fox News stations. This system is also intended to make it very easy for users to share their uploaded images with their MySpace social networks.
The strategy of developing citizen journalists for gathering news is quickly becoming the norm for all news agencies from television to print. (more…)
Yesterday’s F-18 crash in a residential area in San Diego led to a host of user-generated news reports on CNN’s iReport. Here’s a short clip of two high school students reporting on what they saw and heard as the pilot ejected and the plane came down just beyond their school campus.
The crash killed three people on the ground, but the pilot survived.
Weather is often a sure fire upload for CNN’s iReport, a user-generated online news channel. Here’s a video report from the big snowstorm that hit the Canadian maritime provinces yesterday. Some parts received more than 80 cm.
CNN will air a special report this Thursday on American Thanksgiving paying tribute to 10 CNN Heroes, selected by users and viewers. More than one million votes were cast for community activists, children’s advocates and other active volunteers who help make the world a better place.
Apple’s stock took a pounding on Friday for a short while after a citizen journalist posted a false report that CEO Steve Jobs had had a heart attack. CNN’s iReport was revealed as the source of the story that quickly sent Apple’s shares diving. The stock recovered later after the company refuted the story, but it certainly had an impact on shares in an already volatile stock market.
The story made news over at CNN’s rival, Fox News, which said in a story, “Were this to have appeared on a random stock messaging board somewhere, it would likely have had little impact, but CNN has put its weight behind this iReport endeavor.” (more…)
CNN and its user-generated news service, iReport, have a new video campaign, iReport Film Festival: Campaign 2008. To enter, participants log on to ireport.com, complete the online submission form, and upload a short film, eight minutes or less, that covers a topic or candidate in the U.S Presidential Campaign, a behind-the-scenes look at a campaign or a grassroots political organization. (more…)
If there is anybody who is still wondering if society has embraced user-generated content or not, take a look at this news release from CNN. The cable news network celebrated the second anniversary of its iReport today noting it has brought in more than 175,000 videos and photos since its launch, with nearly 125,000 coming in the second year alone.
That marked a 176 per cent rise in photo and video contributions since last year, the initiative now draws an average of nearly 15,000 iReports every month. News gathered through iReport is used on multiple television networks and on CNN.com every day.
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