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.
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You saw Meredith's post a little while ago about big changes to CNN.com? Well, a few iReporters got to take a look last night at a press preview in New York and they're starting to share their first impressions on iReport.com. We're collecting them over on the iReport blog – come take a look!

One of my favorite things about iReport is that every day it offers little glimpses of life in places I don’t know anything about, and introduces us to the characters who live there. Very often, those stories and people become part of CNN.
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At CNN we argue a lot about what's news. The results of those daily discussions, of course, are displayed in bold headlines on the CNN.com home page or in stories on our cable network shows.

But over on our new site, iReport.com, we're trying something different.
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This time last year, the small team that produces the I-Report section on CNN.com didn't have a whole lot to do.

We'd raced to launch the brand new section page, filled it up with simple forms for collecting video and photos, and made big plans with our friends and colleagues who produce CNN TV to get the I-Reports on the air once they came in.
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