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Today NaturalNews is announcing the beta launch of its WebSeed Citizen Journalism project that allows individuals to earn an ongoing revenue stream by writing news articles that will be published on the NaturalNews Network. (A "Citizen Journalist" is a news writer or reporter who is not necessarily credentialed through a journalism school, but is nevertheless a well-informed reporter on their chosen topics. Most tend to cover news from an independent, grassroots point of view.)

In this new WebSeed Citizen Journalism program, participants ("reporters", who may be located anywhere in the world) are given a topic ("beat") to cover, such as food safety, the FDA, prenatal nutrition, or other topics. Using a web interface, they submit stories to NaturalNews editors who review the stories for publication on NaturalNews.com and other sites.

These stories are published underneath a Google Adsense banner belonging to the reporter. (Each reporter must have a Google Adsense account to participate and earn revenue.) All clicks and earnings from those Adsense ads are paid directly to the reporter by Google (according to Google's terms and conditions, to which authors must agree to separately). This generates an ongoing revenue stream for the citizen journalists.

Reporters are also able to include an author byline to be published at the end of each article, in which reporters may place hyperlinks to their other projects (books, websites, companies, products, etc.).

The benefits to Citizen Journalist reporters are:

• The NaturalNews Network (comprised of NaturalNews.com and several hundred other topic-specific news sites) provides instant visibility and wide readership for quality authors / reporters.

• The Adsense placement provides near-instant revenue for reporters whose articles are accepted for publication.

• A web interface allows reporters to pitch story ideas to NaturalNews editors, then easily submit, delete and edit articles through any web browser.

• The author byline section allows the reporters to place hyperlinks linking back to their own website or other projects.

• Reporters can publish their work anonymously, if desired, and yet still earn Adsense revenues from their content.

• NaturalNews archives and cross-links all article content, providing long-term revenue potential from search clicks. All articles are also keyword tokenized and added to appropriate topic theme lists and websites where they enjoy widespread visibility.

• Each business day, articles links and pictures are emailed out to over 100,000 NaturalNews subscribers who click and read the news items that interest them.

• News items published on NaturalNews are automatically syndicated via RSS, reaching tens of thousand of additional readers each day.

• Google News spiders all NaturalNews articles within minutes of their publication, providing valuable article publicity through the Google News pages.

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