Sky has launched a free iPhone app that not only helps you keep up-to-date with the latest news, but lets you make it too! The application features the ability to send short news stories and pictures, along with your contact details, to the Sky newsroom, should you see something newsworthy.

Citizen journalism has really taken off in the last few years, with the ubiquity of camera phones and the growing use of the mobile internet making it possible for anyone to report the news.

Just a couple of months ago, a passenger on the plane that crashed into the Hudson river jumped straight into citizen journalist mode and posted a picture of the crash on Twitter, alerting some of the world’s top news providers to the story.

Right, I’m off to stand outside the Priory with my iPhone to see if I can snap Susan Boyle doing something strange.

Update: Econsultancy have published a review of this app here.