Mobile apps let newsrooms assign ‘citizen journalists’

By Newsroom America Feeds at 31 Jan 2012

A new mobile app aims to give YouTube a run for its money in the “citizen journalist” assignment game. Rawporter is the latest competitor to YouTube Direct, giving newsrooms the ability to request and rebroadcast video from anyone who happens to be at or near the scene of a news event. What Rawporter offers that’s [...]

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