CNN opens Second Life i-Report hub

CNN has opened a new i-Report hub in Second Life that will help equip Second Life residents to report on the virtual world and then broadcast their reports.

SLNN reports:

Kiosks situated around the i-shaped hub contain both video screens to display resident-generated video reports as well as iReport toolkits dispensed for free to intrepid resident reporters. The kits include a CNN “camera” and a HUD for viewing photo and text i-Reports. The kiosks can also be copied and placed wherever residents have permission to build....

CNN plans to hold regular editorial discussions with resident reporters every Tuesday at 2 p.m. SLT at the news desk near their hub's landing point.

Lila King (Lila Ireport in Second Life), Senior Producer at CNN.com Interactive Storytelling, tells SLNN, “What we are really hoping to do in Second Life is learn about virtual worlds and building and maintaining online communities. There are a lot of exciting possibilities extending iReport.”

Some of the i-Reports may be viewed on CNN.com’s SL iReport Blog but no immediate plans exist to show resident-generated news on CNN television in the real world.

Sky News in England has been doing something similar since June and has promised to show some of the reports on air.

For those of you who use Second Life, you can teleport to the CNN hub via this SLurl.

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