iReport also known as I-Report launched in August 2, 2006 is CNN's new method that allow the public to interact with the media through public journalism.
It allows users to contribute videos and pictures of breaking news stories from there own home town or anywhere they are. Public journalism practice allows and encourage regular people to not just watch or listen to the news, but to become a part of it. It also created CNN's Fan Zone, where fans could post current pictures of their favorite team playing. This method of public journalism was prove to be greatly useful during the 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake which cause a large tsunami to devastated multiple shores lines. News journalist were unable to get to ground zero and images could not be capture except with the help of locals and tourist's cameras.
From then on, the need to have a site like iReport was created and inspired a chain of followers such as ABC's i-Caught, Fox's uReport, MSNBC's FirstPerson, and Broadcast Interactive's YouNews.
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