CNN iReport offers anyone an opportunity to shape what CNN cable news covers and also how they cover it. Every day people from around the world can share stories of events occurring near them or offer their own take on headline issues – via videos they upload to the CNN iReport site.

The CNN iReport community helps to alert CNN to those iReports which should become part of global news coverage on CNN.

News comes in all shapes and sizes, and while the community helps to shape what counts as news, there are a few things every iReport should have in common:

• It’s yours. Your iReports should be made up of your own words and images, or those that you have the rights to use.
• It’s true. iReports should be about real events, or real opinions on events.
• It’s new and interesting. The best iReports teach something new or start a fresh discussion.

For detailed guidelines on submitting news and option videos to the CNN iReport, to go: http://ireport.cnn.com/guidelines.jspa.

Here are a few of the key people behind CNN iReport:

• Lila King, Participation Director @CNN. “I like to think of myself as the ringleader of the iReport circus.” Web: http://lilacina.com.
• Katie Hawkins-Gaar, editorial leader of Team iReport and an iReport Sr. Producer. Twitter: http://twitter.com/katiehawk.
• Christina Zdanowicz, iReport news producer

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