CNN’s new Exchange portal is a citizen journalist’s wet dream. Roving reporters can now send text, video and picture messages to CNN from their cell phones. Citizen op-ed producers can also sound off on issues of the day in 30 second clips - the best of which appear nightly on Prime News with Erica Hill.
I’m now a lot more likely to turn on CNN than I used to be. It’s a grand slam for them to find ways to integrate user generated content into their broadcasts. But it remains to be seen whether the folks in charge of filtering the content will post or broadcast opinions or stories that are critical of CNN, its advertisers, or its affiliates.
Via Micropersuasion.
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