Citizen journalism site Allvoices to pay professional journalists
New Provoices scheme will recruit qualified journalists as contributors
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Citizen journalism outfit Allvoices.com is to recruit and pay professional journalists to contribute to its website.
As part of the Provoices scheme, journalists will be paid up to $250 (around £150) a story and more for 'high-traffic' stories, a release from Allvoices said.
The launch is the site's latest attempt to bring its community of amateur writers and reporters closer to professional news organisations, following the beta release last month of a syndication programme for news outlets to use its content .
Participants for the Provoices network will be selected with a view to creating a network of correspondents for key cities and subject areas.
"The number is open ended: we want to cover major locations, hot spots and major beats," CEO Amra Tareen told Journalism.co.uk.
Journalists can apply to be part of the scheme by setting up an Allvoices profile and emailing a CV and examples of their work to
[journalist [at] allvoices.com](mailto:journalism@allvoices.com)
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The site's professional contributors will be overseen by Lynda Gorov, former Boston Globe correspondent and Chicago Sun-Times columnist.
"We recognise that these are tough times for many journalists as news organizations downsize," said Tareen in the release.
"We're providing a platform for the best of these journalists to continue to cover their beats, communicate with a global audience and earn money doing it."
Earlier this year the site, which now attracts more than 4 million unique users a month and reports from 157 countries, launched an incentive programme for its contributors .
Prior to launching its syndication programme, the site introduced relevant Twitter updates to its news report pages . Relevant text, video and social media content will also be added around articles posted by Provoices journalists.
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Laura Oliver is a freelance journalist, a contributor to the Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism, co-founder of The Society of Freelance Journalists and the former editor of Journalism.co.uk (prior to it becoming JournalismUK)
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