CNN.com recently announced the winners of its inaugural iReport Awards at the 2011 South by Southwest Conference and Festivals.
The winners were selected from more than 150,000 iReports submitted to the cable news station in 2010 and represented citizen journalists from around the world.
Awards were presented in eight categories: Breaking News Coverage, Original Reporting, Compelling Imagery (Photos or Video), Commentary, Personal Story, Interview, Community Choice and iReport Spirit. The full story posted by CNNPressRoom.Blogs.com is HERE.
CNN’s commitment to citizen journalism appears to be growing and the offering of these awards is an important step forward for aspiring and active citizen journalists.
Thomas L. Blair is a sociologist and political blogger on the Chronicleworld 'for creative renewal in Black Britain and Afro-Europe'. His work is honoured in the British Library's archive of "social, historic and culturally significant web-based material from the UK domain". He won top prize in the blogging competition on The-Latest.
Sumantra Maitra is a freelance journalist from Mumbai, India. He is a correspondent for All Sports magazine, and a foreign affairs blogger for the Washington Examiner. He has written articles for news website Merinews.com and other regional publications. Sumantra runs a blog at DailyWorldWatch.wordpress.com. He provided exclusive eyewitness reports for The-Latest on the Mumbai bombings of 2008.
Brian Usher is photography consultant for The-Latest.Com. He is a highly experienced editorial and commercial photographer whose work has been published throughout the world, appearing in many well known magazines and newspapers. Brian has featured in several books and has been a writer for the Royal Photographic Society magazine.
Heidi Kingstone has spent time in Afghanistan reporting for a number of publications. Her work has appeared in the Financial Times, The Spectator, The Sunday Times and other international journals. She has also reported from places like Iraq, Rwanda, Lebanon, Sudan, Democratic Republic of Congo, and Kenya. Heidi is The-Latest's Editor at large.
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