After recently touring the CNN building in Atlanta during my spring break this past week I was introduced to i-report (iReport). Similar to the well known youtube, iReport is a public journalistic site where anyone around the globe can post photos or video's on any breaking news that they have encountered. This site was created in 2006 to take advantage of citizen's availability to certain events. iReport takes a page of wikinews by allowing and encouraging the public to submit stories, photos, and videos from anywhere and from any source, such as a phone, camera or computer.
The site didn't become a hit until 2007 when a video was submitted to the iReport site from a graduate student who had captured the sounds of gunfire at the Virginia Tech Masacre. CNN had paid the student for rights to the video that he had shot as well. This notable event shows how the immediacy of such content on a site such as iReport helps to disclose a certain story/event when the news reporters aren't able to attain such information.
The iReport site: www.ireport.com
Check it out!
My Logo
This is a logo I made in one of my design classes. I feel like it really describes me well in the sense that I am absolutely obsessed with pink and it is just has a happy and bubbly vibe.
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