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ABC News is celebrating their 10 year anniversary by becoming a lot more social. According to Michael Clemente, Senior Executive Producer at ABC News:

The new site is designed to harness the power of community. And by community we mean “citizen reporters,” our viewers and readers who help us report the news by contributing, commenting and telling us what they know. The redesigned ABCNEWS.com makes it much easier for our Internet users to add to the facts, ask questions of newsmakers and make their voices heard.

ABC News have added a new sidebar to the right of each story, enabling viewers to comment on the stories, contribute more facts about the story by telling the editorial team what they know, and discuss and debate the story on the message boards.

The feature that I liked the most is the ability to send videos to ABC News to ask questions, comment on stories or to report an event that happened on the street. Users can send in videos from their cell phones by emailing it to seenandheard@abcnews.com or from their PC’s by hitting the post video button on the sidebar of each story.

Newspapers and Media Corps have read the writing on the wall and are now becoming more and more social to cater the growing hunger of the masses to contribute rather than just digest information. Previously USA Today took a giant leap forward by transforming itself into a social network, but the bar has been raised further by Topix.net which is now a socially editable online news site.

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