Time Warner Inc.'s CNN plans to standardize how it solicits and handles user-contributed news amid an industry-wide move to let consumers play a more prominent role in the news gathering process.
The cable news network on Tuesday plans to announce it has created a new program to let users send in digital audio and video from breaking news events in their region. Users can e-mail or upload these so-called "I-Reports" directly from CNN's site.
I think this is a brilliant extension of the years old practice of using amateur video that happens to capture something newsworthy - why not be more accessible? The challenge will be managing the influx.
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