The second keynote of the ISOJ was by Meredith Artley, vice president and managing editor, CNN.com She started by stressing the importance of journalism and showed dramatic images of the aftermath of the disaster in Japan. Like for other news organisations, Japan has proved a major draw for CNN. In the 10 days since the Japan quake on March 11, CNN had: 75 million average page views per day on PC

Image by acaben via Flickr The false report about Steve Jobs that briefly surfaced on CNN’s iReport site has prompted a wave of discussion on the “failings” of citizen journalism. Apple swiftly dismissed the rumour, and CNN removed the item. Across the web, there are comments about “the dangers of citizen journalism” (BBC), “citizen journalism just failed” (Read/Write/Web) or the “perils of citizen journalism” (Computerworld). These reports suggesting the imminent

CNN is taking its approach to citizen journalism one step further by setting up iReport.com as a dedicated citizen media site. Like many other mainstream media outlets, CNN has had to cope with far more submissions from the audience than it could process and publish. Only around 10% of the 100,000 photos and videos sent to CNN have been posted since the launch its citizen journalism project in August 2006