Current TV, the "independent media company" led by Al Gore and Joel Hyatt, has announced a new "Current Journalism" program for video journalists. The company wants to empower "viewers to tell their stories about what's going on in their world" by accepting submissions of "news and journalism-based pods."

Aspiring "Current Journalists" can upload a video story here. (Journalists must agree to a code of ethics, but when I tried to view the code, it didn't load for me.)

"Current Journalism is way to share world events with a generation that doesn't relate to the evening news," Laura Ling, supervising producer of Vanguard Journalism, says. Here's the home page for the project...