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his 10-page case study from the Berkman Center for Internet and Society at Harvard University in the United States (US) explores the US-based Cable News Network (CNN)'s iReport, launched in August 2006 to collect citizen-generated media for potential use by CNN programmes. Billed as a location for "uncensored, unfiltered, unedited, user-generated community news," the iReport.com website features photos, videos, and text on topics ranging from current events to personal stories and opinion submitted to the site by registered users, or "iReporters."
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Though British households enjoy the highest income, at £35,730 a year, £10,325 higher than the European average, British families have to contend with a high cost of living, with fuel, food and alcohol all costing more than the European average.
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There’s now no doubt that Guardian News & Media is planning a local online news project. It’s hiring for metropolitan “beatbloggers” in Cardiff, Leeds and Edinburgh for local news services that will launch early next year.
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But any journalist who fails to get to grips with social networking tools, or who allows their own online personality to be subsumed in corporate blandness and bla, will risk irrelevance and invisibility in the future. We all know, as journalists, that our reputations are the foundations for our career. Our reputations belong to us, not our employers.