AP's 'Assignment: You' and 'My World'

The Associated Press's ASAP site has launched a few interesting projects recently, including "Assignment: You" and "My World."

For the past several weeks, in "Assignment: You" asap has solicited story ideas from people and said that they could assign an AP reporter a story. Editor Ted Anthony says: "What have you always wanted to see a story done on, but you think the mainstream media will never do? We will assign a reporter and put the resources of asap and the larger AP behind it. We've had a great response."

You can see the results from the first one here.

Anthony describes "My World": "Another thing we've done is something called "My World" in which we hand over a camera to someone who is in a middle of a major news event and have them shoot their lives for a day. Then they give the camera back to us and we produce the piece. One of the pieces we got out of that was pretty staggering in its impact but also caused some controversy. We gave cameras to two Iraqi children and one of them came back with the picture of his friends playing execution. That was a really dramatic photo that emulated the videos that you saw from al-Zarqawi for such a long time."

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