GMANews.TV sets up YouScoop for 'citizen journalists'

The hardy souls who call themselves "citizen journalists" have seen the future of news and it is them. Armed with just their cell phones or digicams, citizen journalists -- or non-professional news gatherers -- can break stories and scoop even the TV networks by being the first and sometimes the only one at the scene of an important event. This is also called "crowd-sourcing" news. GMANews.TV has created a new way for these alert eyewitnesses to send in their photos and videos -- YouScoop.
For the latest Philippine news videos, visit GMANews.TV YouScoop replaces Stormwatch, GMANews.TV's ground-breaking feature which drew hundreds of submissions of pictures and videos of the two big storms that hit Luzon this year, "Ondoy" and "Pepeng". Many of these made an impact as the first pictures to come from affected areas and were either published on GMANews.TV or aired on GMA News programs, or both. They featured everything from flooded communities and landslide victims to a spectacular rainbow forming an arch over a city skyline. YouScoop, however, will not be limited to images of disasters or what we think of as news. It is open to anything that could be interesting to a wide audience -- human interest, unusual sights, quirky characters, and funny photos, as long as they were shot in the last six months. Pre-screened by GMA News and GMANews.TV editors and producers, the best of the these image submissions will be seen by millions on TV news programs and on the web. - GMANews.TV