A partnership with The Associated Press and start-up NowPublic.com is starting to provide credible citizen journalism to AP for global distribution. AP asserts it’s a radically different way for the organization to create a global network of citizen journalists and connect them to mainstream media.

This group of mostly seniors publishing the citmeida site RyeReflections.org showcase how they have advanced their storytelling and photo skills in covering major storms hitting the N.H. seacoast. Citizen stories, images contributed to packages produced by staff under extraordinary circumstances.

ValhallaCommunityVoices.com was created as an online monthly newspaper for residents of Westchester County, N.Y., using a blog format. The site touts itself as providing the residents of the Valhalla School District "a venue to learn about issues, events and achievements."

Paulding.com is a 3-year-old citizen news site covering Paulding County, Ga., that now has over 108,000 topics and 1.3 million posts. The site uses online forums for user-submitted news and discussion rather than the blog-style system that many other citizen media sites use.

The SilverStringers, a senior citizens group, write, edit and publish the Melrose Mirror to provide community news in an online format. Supported by MIT, the reporting teams cover range of news not covered by other local newspapers.

One of the first citizen-generated news projects, this site gives each registered user a free blog and photo album and ability to participate in share community calendar. The goal is "a community in conversation with itself." The Web site provides user-generated content for a print newspaper and has more than 8,500 registered users in a community of about 17,000. The site averages 10 new signups per day and 95% of the market reads it.

An independent community media project offering Webcast radio, a public access TV station and an EBS radio signal. Volunteers from the community create much of the content on air and built a studio to keep the project up and running.

The Cincinnati Enquirer, Post and 27 weeklies created a site to aggregate their content and incorporate citizen photos, videos and stories. It now has 222 community sites and 2,000+ stories per week. The system was developed and deployed without additional staffing.

Hybrid Web-tv short form documentary work by citizen and professional journalists, targeting the 18-34 year old demographic, is posted on the Web site. Users rate the videos and their favorites are aired on Current TV's satellite and cable stations in the U.S. and U.K.

A visually rich, smartly-written, hyperlocal site for the New Jersey coastal town of Red Bank. Run by a husband and wife team and a freelancer, the site gets 8,500 page views per week.