CNN's iReport.com

What Company Is Offering:
iReport.com, that is you! So they've this site and equipped it with some nifty tools for posting, discovering and talking about what you think makes the cut.

Use the tools you find here to share and talk about the news of your world, whether that's video and photos of the events of your life, or your own take on what's making international headlines. Or, even better, a little bit of both.

How it Works:
The iReports you see here on iReport.com come straight from iReporters, and they appear on the site the moment they're uploaded. The iReports you see on CNN.com are selected and vetted by CNN before they are used on CNN's platforms.

The "newsiest" stories are sorted in lists at the top of each section on the homepage and in other places around the site. Newsiest is a formula that combines freshness, popularity, activity and ratings. The idea behind newsiest is that all the contributions the iReport.com community of users make to the site -- stories, discussions, comments, ratings, pageviews -- and what CNN producers pick for their own stories could add up to tell us something new about what it means for a story to be newsworthy.


Some of the iReport stories on this site have a little "On CNN" stamp in the top left corner. That means that a CNN producer has picked that iReport to use on CNN, either on TV or CNN.com.
The top members on iReport.com are called superstars. How do we decide who makes the cut? It's all in the math. The site tallies members' contributions, ratings, popularity and site activity, and gives the "superstar" badge to the members whose scores are in the top 20 percent every week.
More at:
http://beta.ireport.com/