Cover The News - Get Paid $

Usually on Sunday I roam several web sites around the Silicon Valley area, to see what is new in the area. In my travels I happened to stumble upon a company called Allvoices.com, a startup that is offering cash for your news stories. The offer starts now and goes until February 19, 2009. The site caters to what are called citizen journalists and the pay isn’t to shabby. In an article from SF Gate it states:

Citizen journalists whose work gets at least 100,000 page views in six months will earn $1,000. If they achieve 1,000,000 page views, they will earn $10,000. If you have a blog and install Allvoices’ blogging widget, whatever you write on your blog will be posted directly on Allvoices’ site.

The offer expires next February 19.

Right now all content that’s submitted to Allvoices is automatically posted after it’s combined with other relevant content that Allvoices finds on the Web. In the future, however, Tareen expects to hire human editors. She’d also like to build a community of good contributors and has pitched Allvoices to journalism schools because she figures their graduates will have a hard time finding jobs.

Allvoices expects to make money through advertising and will share a percentage of that revenue with contributors, Tareen said.

After viewing the website it is very professional looking and carries news items separated by categories. To post a news article only requires a simple registration process.  But is a 100,000 views or 1,000,000 views possible for a single story? That all depends how many folks are chasing the same news.

One of the problems that some bloggers are starting to notice, is that it now seems everyone is chasing the same story. This has been reported on more than one occasion by who other than bloggers themselves.  Linking back to various stories from web based companies who make money from the track backs is now the norm on the Internet. So in order for any blogger or journalist to get 1,000,000 views in six months may be a challenge.

Is it impossible? Not at all. Six months is a long time.

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