The Patriot-News turns to citizens for ideas

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Citizen journalism continues to pop up in different places around the Internet; websites like the BBC World Service "Your Story" project, Spot.Us and blogging in general have all contributed to the fast growth of the concept. Recently Daniel Victor, a reporter with The Patriot-News in Pennsylvania, has turned to his readers for story ideas, reported Journalism.co.uk.

The project is called Central PA NewsVote and is similar to Spot.Us in that citizens are invited to pitch story ideas online. Readers can post their ideas on the blog, which will later be voted on and ranked. Predictably, the story with the most votes is the one that runs.

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Source: journalism.co.uk