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iReport's new home

Let me tell you about my favorite corner of the web: CNN iReport. (Full disclosure: I’m totally biased, since I lead the amazing team that built iReport, but stick with me here. This is big.)

Just like CNN, iReport is a place where you’ll find news stories from almost every corner of the globe and fresh perspectives on the day’s big headlines. What’s different is the people. People on iReport aren’t professional journalists. They’re regular folks who have a camera and something to say, and together they’ve built a lively community of news hounds and citizen reporters who take us inside the stories that are close to them. Their work is incredible, and it’s made an enormous impact on CNN.

Since iReport launched in 2006, people around the world have posted 442,414 stories, and more than 20,000 of those have been vetted and used as part of CNN coverage. Pieces like this video of nighttime protests from Tehran rooftops and this aerial photo of a lone house left standing after a hurricane in coastal Texas started on iReport and made their way to CNN.

What's cool is that iReport gets a home in the new CNN.com. What used to be a completely separate web site at iReport.com is now a section of CNN.com, just like Politics or World news. Except this section includes a dedicated community of citizen reporters, a healthy archive of first-person news reporting, and a set of tools for posting and sharing news close to you.

We call it CNN iReport.

A few things you should know on your first visit:

  • iReport stories come from users, and they aren’t screened or fact-checked before they post.
  • iReports used in CNN's coverage of the news are vetted and cleared by CNN. You'll know those iReports by the "CNN iReport" stamp in the left corner.
  • You’re invited to take part. If you have a story to share, iReport is the place.
  • The main iReport page features the best iReports that have been vetted for CNN. It’s a great place to start.

    • I couldn’t be happier that we're moving the two sites together - connecting iReport to CNN.com opens the door for new kinds of collaboration and storytelling that I’m itching to try out, and surely all kinds of cool things we haven’t thought of yet. But first things first: we’ve got some settling in to do. The iReport Team and I are hosting a conversation about the new look and features over on the iReport blog. Sure hope you’ll swing by and say hello.

    (Special thanks to iReporter and cartoonist extraordinaire Brixton Doyle, who penned the monstrously awesome cartoon at the top of this post.)

    Posted by: Lila King - Sr. Producer for iReport
    Filed under: Content • Features • iReport


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    October 28th, 2009
    8:33 pm ET
    		  

    Maybe I'm just to old, but I was very corftable with the old cnn. The new does not allow me to look at stocks with major looking, nor weather without changing to new.
    Sorry I know that you musst know what your doing, but for me, I'm looking for a NEW home page.

    Posted by: harvey
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    October 30th, 2009
    5:59 am ET
    		  

    I'm with Harvey for exactly the same reasons. I understand that all of the ..."stuff" a site visitor has to wade through ups the value to your current and potential advertisers, but it has me looking for a new home page. Too many videos, too. But there we go again with the ad connection.
    I'm going to miss you.

    Posted by: Ivan
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