CNN, MTV, Mashable and Facebook Discuss How Crowdsourcing Is Affecting Reporting

“The way CNN reports a story today is fundamentally different than the way CNN would do it four years ago, before iReport, and before you could actually include the voice of the audience, and represent them back in the story,” said CNN’s Lila King.

That being said, King acknowledged, “I think we have a long way to go, for sure. I don’t want to sit here and pretend that it’s all figured out, but I think we’re heading in that direction.”

The comments came on a panel titled, “CrowdControl: Changing The Face Of Media Or Hype?” moderated by Text 100’s Joe Kingsbury and also featuring Mashable founder Pete Cashmore, Facebook’s Randi Zuckerberg, and MTV’s Jason Rzepka.

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