The website allows anyone to submit their own news, documentary and opinion videos. The submissions that earn the highest number of votes by the audience on the website are broadcast on the television channel, which now reaches 58 million households in the USA, Ireland and Italy. The editors work with viewer-created content (VC2) producers from around the world who reveal how crises directly affect their corner of the earth. "We often turn to the video diary format," says Andrew Fitzgerald, manager of the collective journalism department. "What we do is ask people to submit their personal stories. We show the really authentic, personal videos of those who are directly affected."Get the full story by Lisa Hix in the San Francisco edition of MINIInternational

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