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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.

Location-based mobile app Gowalla added a CNN iReport option to its Highlights, allowing citizen journalists contributing to the cable network’s initiative to use Gowalla Passport Holders to highlight important locations.

When the Gowalla Passport Holders are added, messages will automatically be uploaded to CNN iReport, and highlights can be shared on other platforms including Facebook, Twitter, and Tumblr.

CNN producers will be able to choose reports highlighted via Gowalla for use in the network’s reporting, and users whose content is chosen will receive CNN iReport pins on their Gowalla passports.

CNN.com participation director Lila King said:

Opening up iReport to the Gowalla community is an exciting step for participatory journalism. By bringing the power of location services to our iReport community, we are connecting our audience to the precise places where news events are happening.

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.

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CNN and the Online News Association co-hosted an event in Atlanta last Thursday, The Art of Collaborative Storytelling, which examined the changing nature of storytelling and newsgathering, including community participation.

The discussion was moderated by CNN International anchor and correspondent Michael Holmes, and the panel was made up of WonderRoot executive director and co-founder Chris Appleton, StoryCorps Atlanta site supervisor Amanda Plumb, and CNN.com participation director Lila King.

The photo below is from John Nowak and CNN.