Purple States
Purple States LLC is a video based media company that uses citizen journalists in professionally edited news content. Purple States combines the on-line movement towards user generated content (youtube.com, i-report.com) with the professional quality associated with traditional news and television media. Launched in 2007 with coverage of the primary elections, Purple States has produced video that ranges from orchestrated and edited video-blogs that appear on its own website, to filmed online series of five-minute segments that have appeared on NYTimes.com, washingtonpost.com, local television, CNN's iReport, and Verizon. The company says it is working on longer-form programming for national television.