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CNN.com and TIME.com teamed up to launch Global Public Square, a new blog that will feature insights on global news from CNN Fareed Zakaria GPS host and TIME editor at large Fareed Zakaria, as well as journalists from the cable network and the magazine, and other expert guests.

Global Public Square is edited by CNN.com World producer Amar Bakshi, and guests set to contribute over the next few weeks include: foursquare co-founders Dennis Crowley and Naveen Selvadurai; statistics guru Hans Rosling; and Nina Hachigian, co-author of The Next American Century.

CNN’s Nic Robertson will also provide analysis on Libya’s tipping point, and CNN Cairo bureau chief Ben Wedeman will report on the ongoing unrest in the Middle East and north Africa. Global Public Square will also feature a weekly news quiz, and a books of the week entry.

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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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CNNPolitics.com has a new editor: Bryan Monroe, formerly a visiting professor at Northwestern University’s Medill School of Journalism. Prior to Northwestern, Monroe served as vice president and editorial director for Ebony and Jet, and he is also a former president of the National Association of Black Journalists.

At CNNPolitics.com, he will lead editorial planning and content strategy for online and mobile coverage from CNN’s Washington, D.C., bureau.

CNN.com vice president and managing editor Meredith Artley said:

Bryan is an outstanding addition to the talented CNNPolitics.com team, and also to CNN’s D.C. bureau, including Sam Feist, Edith Chapin, and their teams. His experience and leadership will expand and deepen our political reporting across CNN.com, The Political Ticker, and all of our mobile products.

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CNN.com spruced up its CNNPolitics.com in time for the buildup to the midterm elections.

New features include: “The Top 5,” a daily digest of the five most important political stories; “Top Stories” and “The Conversation,” the biggest political stories of the moment, broken down by topics generating the most conversation and comments among CNN.com users; “Opinion,” op-eds and daily musings from CNN’s political contributors and pundits; “Polling Center,” featuring CNN’s extensive polling, plus public political polling from across the country; and “Local Headlines,” political headlines from across the nation customizable by ZIP code and powered by CNN’s local affiliates.

The new CNNPolitics.com also features cover story “The Sweep” and regular features from political contributors including “Wolf’s Picks” from The Situation Room with Wolf Blitzer anchor Wolf Blitzer, weekly column “Henry in the House” from senior White House correspondent Ed Henry, weekly column “Reliable Sources” from Reliable Sources host Howie Kurtz, and “Preston on Politics,” an analytical wrap-up of the day’s political headlines from political editor Mark Preston.

CNN.com vice president and managing editor Meredith Artley said:

The new CNNPolitics.com pairs CNN’s timely, smart reporting with new interactive features and visual oomph. Our dynamic coverage now has the dynamic digital presence it deserves.

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