Yahoo Wants Citizen Journalism

Yahoo! News plans to launch a citizen video-journalist news service at the end of June that will act as a collection and publication site for news videos generated by the public. Red Herring reports.

"Sources involved in discussions with Yahoo News said the project, which has been in development for months, will introduce an upload capability that will take the PC out of the connectivity loop, so amateur video journalists can upload footage directly from the location of the event.

The idea for the citizen journalist site was inspired by the aftermath of London bombings a year ago, where dramatic photos taken by average citizens with cell phone cameras lent an aura of immediacy to the dramatic events."