A Web site for local news hopes to fill the growing void in professionally reported local news by recruiting citizens armed with iPhones as reporters.

The site, Fwix, will release an iPhone application this week that enables its users to file news updates, photos and videos, live from the field. The items will appear on Fwix ‘s year-old Web site, which also collects links to local news articles from newspapers and blogs in 85 cities.

This sounds like a very good way to encourage more local news reporting. Given how much more iPhone users seem to love using their mobile browser, taking and sharing pics, and uploading video, I can see this taking off nicely once their app hits as well.

Via NYTimes.com

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