Media News - Wednesday, April 16, 2008
CBS launches citizen journalism upload site
CBS has quietly launched a citizen journalism website where members of the public can upload video and still images of newsworthy events from their mobile phones. The launch of Cbseyemobile.com follows the launch of similar sites by other US TV networks to glean photos and video from members of the public to use in their news programmes. CNN soft-launched its own citizen journalism upload site iReport 18-months ago. It has since been forced to expand the site to accommodate the high volume of material that is being submitted. The CBS mobile site was soft-launched last week without any promotion or senior staff talking about their aspirations for their new development. It's expected that the 'sell' to the public will come once the site has been up and running for a few weeks. The launch site has limited the social features, allowing users to just leave comments and ranking stories according to number of views. CBS is looking primarily for images of breaking news, weather, sports and politics from the public on the site and is already populating it with some of its own content to encourage further uploads. (Journalism.co.uk)
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