Saturday, April 10

Citizen Journalism Setting Up News Desks

A citizen journalism site called AllVoices says it will add "global news desks" in 30 different cities around the world. Both professional and citizen journalists will provide regular in-country reports through these news desks. Cities include London, Nairobi,Baghdad, Beijing, Islamabad, and Shanghai. The site also lets users file reports from their cell phones. AllVoices was recently given $3 million in funding and claims a community of 300,000 citizen reporters and 5 million unique visitors per month. The site creators say they will soon expand coverage in the US.

Read more at Tech Crunch.