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Any Internet user will be able to contribute to the project called You"re a Reporter. RIA Novosti will select and verify the contributions before they are published along with materials produced by the agency"s staff correspondents.

"Handling user-generated content has become part of routine media business. The ability to work with citizen journalists, encourage, train and offer them a platform for broadcasting, gives a fantastic advantage to specific media outlets," RIA Novosti Internet Projects Director Natalya Loseva said.

She said the new project could grow into a permanent community of enthusiastic, mobile and active people who will not only consume, but also produce information.

To join the news production process you can e-mail your material as an attachment or send it as an MMS to reporter@rian.ru or use the upload service http://reporter.rian.ru/upload/.

Several seminars and training programs will be held for the participants of the project. The

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