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CUNY: Innovative web video journalism panel

City University of New York (CUNY) is hosting a panel on innovative web journalism, which we are going to attempt to stream below. It kicks off at 6pm (EST). It can now be viewed by following this link here.

Participating in the discussion of video storytelling online are:

Travis Fox, Emmy-award winning video journalist from The Washington Post

Rachel Sterne, founder and CEO of GroundReport, a citizen journalism platform at GroundReport.com

Benjamin Wagner, vice president of MTV News

Daniel Greenberg, director of production at WNET

Thanks to CUNY professor Sandeep Junnarkar for the link to the live coverage.

Launch of first widget for citizen journalist news

GroundReport, the ‘user-driven’ news site, has launched what it claims to be the first citizen journalism widget.

The application, which works on a range of operating systems, will be updated with the latest citizen journalism headlines from across the globe and lets users filterĀ  news by category.