CNN iReport, CNN’s global participatory news community, announced earlier this week that they have surpassed one million registered contributors.
CNN iReport Now Boasts Over 1 Million Citizen Journalist iReporters
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CNN and Nokia announced the rollout of a free international news app, CNN App for Nokia, in the handset maker’s Ovi Store Tuesday.
CNN Details Online Coverage of Royal Wedding
CNN RSVPed with its online plans for coverage of the United Kingdom’s royal wedding between Prince William and Catherine Middleton, set for Friday, April 29.
CNN.com has already launched The Wedding Planner, a special section that includes background, profiles, photo galleries, video-on-demand, and other exclusive content.
Also up and running is blog Unveiled, which covers all of the behind-the-scenes details leading up to the big event.
iReport, the cable news network’s citizen journalism outlet, is holding a Royal Wedding iReporter Contest, with one U.S.-based winner traveling to London to cover the wedding. Contestants are asked to submit 90-second videos explaining why they should cross the pond.
Beginning April 22, iReport is also inviting citizen journalists to share their experiences, as well as launching CNN iReport Open Story: Royal Wedding, which will feature photos and videos placed along an interactive time line and map.
And CNN set up a CNN Royal Wedding page on Facebook.
SXSW By The Numbers: CNN & Vimeo Team Up To Support Indie Reporters
CNN and Vimeo teamed up this year to let hand-selected iReporters and Vimeo filmmakers cover the SXSW Conferences and Festivals from their own perspectives. Find out more and watch the resulting video diary after the jump.
Winners Announced for First-Ever CNN iReport Awards
The winners of the inaugural edition of the CNN iReport Awards were announced Tuesday at the CNN Grill at the 2011 South by Southwest conference in Austin, Texas, by CNN.com participation director Lila King. They were:
Breaking News Coverage: Michael Roberts, early images of Deepwater Horizon fire;
Original Reporting: Percy von Lipinski, bison as pet;
Compelling Imagery (Photos or Video): Mugur Vărzariu, Abandon Valley;
Commentary: James Amerson, Dear Gulf, I’ll miss you;
Personal Story: Faithe Chu, My escape from Vietnam;
Interview: Tristan Macaraeg, 16-year-old interviews classmate on living in foster care;
Community Choice: Samantha Bolton; and
iReport Spirit Awards: Janie Lambert, Julio Ortiz-Teissonniere, Omékongo Dibinga, Shari Atukorala, and Sherbien Dacalanio.
CNN App for Android Honeycomb Tablets Now Available via Android Market
CNN announced the launch of its CNN App for the Android Honeycomb tablet platform, available free-of-charge via the Android Market.
As the cable news network detailed earlier this month, the app includes iReport capture and upload functionality, live and on-demand video, and CNN Radio updates. The main screen can be viewed in Broadsheet mode, which presents up to 350 stories, along with images and headlines, as well as direct access to the other components mentioned above.
Users can comment alongside content on the screen and share text stories and images via email, Facebook, and Twitter, and they can also flip through story headlines and images directly on their home screens by accessing the app’s layered image widget.
The app marks the first time user-generated news community iReport is available on a tablet, and its live video takes advantage of HTTP live streaming capabilities.
CNN iReport Launches CNN iReport Awards
User-generated news community CNN iReport announced the launch of the CNN iReport Awards, which will recognize the best user-submitted content of 2010, with winners to be announced March 15.
The iReport Awards will be divided into six categories: Breaking News, Original Reporting, Compelling Imagery (photos or video), Commentary, Personal Story, and Interview. A team of journalists and producers from CNN chose five nominees in each category from the total of more than 150,000 iReports received in 2010 from more than 740,000 iReporters around the world.
The panel that will select the final winners — other than the Community Choice winner, which will be voted on by iReport visitors — is made up of: CNN International anchor and correspondent Errol Barnett, ParentDish columnist Rachel Campos Duffy, Star.me CEO Ze Frank, StoryCorps founder Dave Isay, Pictory founder Laura Miner, Vice president and co-founder Shane Smith, and Next New Networks president and co-founder Tim Shey. Voting for the Community Choice winner is open until noon ET March 7.
Nominees will be featured on-air during the week of March 7 from 3 p.m.-5p.m. ET during CNN Newsroom with Brooke Baldwin, and on CNN International’s iReport for CNN, which airs Thursday, Feb. 17, at 11:30 p.m. ET and replays the following weekend.
CNN iReport Global Challenge: The World Waits on Nauru
The world’s smallest republic is the only country holding up CNN iReport‘s biggest project, as Nauru is the only country that has not been the source of an approved iReport in the iReport Global Challenge.
iReporter and freelance journalist Daphne Sashin posted on the iReport Blog:
We are thrilled to announce that we are down to just one country in the iReport Global Challenge: Nauru, the world’s smallest republic.
Those of you who have been following the iReport Blog know that we’ve been striving to get photos, videos and stories from every country on the planet.
As of Monday morning, we have approved iReports from 193 of the 194 countries considered independent nations by the U.S. State Department.
Only Nauru is left! We want to hear from citizens of, or visitors to, this tiny island in the South Pacific, halfway between Australia and Hawaii. Send us a snapshot of life in Nauru — the local culture, food, architecture, natural sites, or an unusual event happening there.
The country, population 9,267, was dubbed “Pleasant Island” by European sailors in the 18th century. But the country has struggled since then. While it once enjoyed great wealth made by mining phosphate for fertilizer, those resources are nearly exhausted.
