The Huffington Post Opens Citizen Journalism Video Network With BroadbandTV
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In 12 months, The Huffington Post hopes that 50% of the content on its site is video. To meet that mark the AOL-owned publisher is creating its own network of video creators as companies like Disney’s Maker Studios have done.
The Huffington Post has signed a deal with digital video network BroadbandTV to create a network of citizen video journalists called Outspeak. People who join the program will be able to create and upload their own news videos to be distributed on The Huffington Post’s site and YouTube and — unlike CNN’s similar iReport service — make money from the ads sold against their videos or videos they end up making for advertisers.
The Huffington Post helped to popularize the idea of citizen journalism — normal people on the ground covering news events the way paid journalists do — and for its titular co-founder, Outspeak is an extension of that work.
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