GroundReport CEO Rachel Sterne on CNN Money

by Ground Report for GroundReport Community    September 04, 2008

CNNMoney's Poppy Harlow was joined by GroundReport.com founding CEO Rachel Sterne and contributor Fred Obera to discuss GroundReport's unique revenue-sharing business model. The video of the interview is available here.

"We want to give [our contributors] an incentive not only to come to GroundReport but to do a really great job on reporting world news when they do," Sterne says. She reports that the top earner at GroundReport made $270 last month, a pretty penny for any citizen journalist.

All GroundReport contributors are paid monthly via PayPal based on their unique traffic. 

Fred Obera, a journalist from Kenya, spoke via live video from an internet cafe in his hometown of Kisumu. "GroundReport has been a great, great source for world news," he said, adding that the revenue share helps him support himself.

Sterne finished by stating plans to attract more contributors and launch regional GroundReport editions.

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