• March 14, 2011

AUSTIN -- During the SXSW conference here Monday, CNN announced a series of technological and news reporting developments that change the way consumers will receive information from the organization. This summer, CNN will release a new "TV Everywhere" app that allows viewers, after signing in via password through their cable system, to access live news programming on their wireless devices. The app can be synched across all Internet capable devices - for example, viewers could begin watching a new story at home, continue on their smartphone while riding the bus to work, then finish again on their tablet after reaching the office.

Additionally, the network plans to more prominently feature submissions from its collection of "iReporters," or citizen journalists, which will now be braided together in what CNN is calling "Open Story" coverage, which will use professional reporters, user-generated recording and mapping data to allow users to choose among a variety of reports submitted from around an area where news is breaking by clicking upon either reporter icons or designation areas on a regional map that indicates where the news is taking place. It also plans to supplement its readers' comments section with a video comments section.