Poynter reporting:
A mobile app called Meporter aims to help citizen journalists report on events and breaking news.
Meporter launched Tuesday afternoon at the TechCrunch Disrupt conference in New York City. The app is purposefully simple: Witnesses use it to report news events, and others use it to browse nearby reports.
“We like to call it the local, mobile news desk,” founder and CEO Andy Leff told me in a phone interview. Users can “report, update and read local news as it’s happening from their phones.”
A couple things about Meporter’s approach stand out: The company is offering to license these reports to news organizations, and it is offering real rewards and possibly even payments to the users who create content.
But it faces similar challenges as other apps that depend on a network of users to create and view content: demonstrating its usefulness and attaining a critical mass of users.
http://www.poynter.org/latest-news/media-lab/mobile-media/134059/the-opportunities-and-challenges-of-meporter-a-new-citizen-journalism-mobile-app
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