In case you wanted to know how to push cit­izen journ­al­ism fur­ther in video, a Flor­ida TV sta­tion has an inter­est­ing plan:

Tampa Bay’s 10 is look­ing for twenty people around the Bay area to help us with a spe­cial pro­ject. We will teach twenty lucky people how to shoot a video cam­era, and how to get the video to us here at the station.

Here is how it will work:

For one year, these twenty people will agree to send us video stor­ies which we will air on our news­cast or post on our web site.

Every three months, shoot­ers will be required to send me ten stor­ies, or clips which I can put on the air.
These clips can be about many dif­fer­ent sub­jects. Things that hap­pen in your com­munity. Any­thing from bad weather to your childs play at school. Maybe your neigh­bor­hood meeting.

Each time you send me a video story that either makes it on the news or on our web site, Tampa Bay’s 10 will pay you TWENTY DOLLARS!