User photos highlighted on CNN, MSNBC

Cory Bergman August 1st, 2007

CNN and CNN.com’s first images from the Minneapolis bridge collapse were from Mark Lacroix, who photographed the aftermath from his apartment window. Lacroix sent the photos to CNN’s I-Report, which celebrates one year on the web Thursday.

MSNBC.com’s First Person also has user-submitted photos here.

Adds anonymous in comments: “I’ve never seen this before: on CNN’s home page they are playing a flash video of the bridge as it collapses. You don’t even have to click play, it’s just there, animated, right where the main news photo usually is. No audio, thankfully. This is something that would be appropriate only in a few circumstances, and this is one of them. Smart thinking to break the mold of “click here for video.”