(From TampaBays10.com -- By Mitchell Wallace)
Local TV stations often encourage viewers to provide footage of news they can't get to -- like weather emergencies, fires and things which may happen too quickly for the station to get professionals to capture.
But St. Petersburg's CBS affiliate WTSP is taking that concept a step further, soliciting viewers and users of its Web site to apply for one of 20 slots in a new citizen journalism program they are unveiling.
They'll train the group of non-journalists to use handheld cameras to capture compelling images they may stumble across on their own.
There's not much money in the proposition -- $20 for every clip used and the right to keep the videocamera after a year.
But the offer hints an an intriguing effort to take WTSP's cameras deeper into the community it's trying to cover.
WTSP-10 Seeking 20 Citizen Journalists To Help Gather News
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