SAN FRANCISCO, April 14, 2010 /PRNewswire/ -- Allvoices.com, the first open media site where anyone can report from anywhere, has launched Global News Bureaus in countries throughout the Middle East and seeks citizen reporters who want to share their perspective on local and global news with readers in the U.S., Europe and throughout the World.

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News bureaus and station chiefs are now in place in Iraq, Lebanon, Egypt, Qatar, United Arab Emirates, and Pakistan; citizens interested in reporting local and regional news are encouraged to submit their work. Additionally, Allvoices is offering an incentive program that ensures citizen reporters get paid for news submissions.

Work submitted by citizen reporters will be featured on Allvoices' Best of the Middle East section on the site's front page. In addition, each country with a Global News Desk will also have a featured section on the Allvoices' site.

We're looking for passionate citizens who want to share a unique, in-country perspective on news in their communities and on how global events impact their own countries, said Aki Hashmi, Chief Marketing Officer at Allvoices.com. This is an invitation for citizens of the Middle East to use our powerful news platform to bring their own views to citizens in the U.S. and Western World whom generally get their information from solely Western news sources.

Middle East citizen reporters can now contribute reports directly to Allvoices or request news assignments from the leaders from their respective country's Global News Desk. Current and former journalists in Middle East countries are encouraged to consider posting work to the site and will be paid for these contributions as well.

Today Allvoices is the largest citizen journalist site in history and features stories, video and images from more than 300,000 contributors daily. This fresh approach to news and reporting has allowed the site to quickly build an audience of 4.5 million visitors.

About Allvoices, Inc.

Allvoices' mission is to create a global community for sharing news, videos, images and opinions from multiple points of view that invoke an emotional connection between individual perspectives from around the world. A community of diverse, engaged and globally minded citizens serves as news reporters, opinion leaders and publishers to share with the world the realities on-the-ground. Allvoices.com brings together context, insight and diversity of opinions around a broad range of topics and issues on the global, national and local levels. Allvoices is the largest global community offering unbiased and relevant news and perspectives in one place. With its proprietary algorithms, Allvoices utilizes professional and online news sources, blogs, images and videos to determine relevancy, foster credibility and maintain openness with each contribution made to the site. For more information, visit http://www.allvoices.com/

SOURCE: Allvoices, Inc.

CONTACT: Sarah Prejean of SutherlandGold Group, +1-415-608-4043,sarah@sutherlandgold.com, for Allvoices, Inc.