GroundReport was a citizen journalism website that enabled contributors to publish news reports and videos.

She wanted to make such a site after her experience reporting on Darfur as an intern at the United Nations.

[3][4] To run GroundReport, Sterne started Open News Platform, a not-for-profit 501(c)(3) organization incorporated in New York.

[6] GroundReport used a Wikipedia-like model of volunteer editors and community feedback, combined with a star rating system.

As the BBC News reported in an article on Dec. 1, 2008, following terror attacks in Mumbai that had been covered on the site, 'it is worth noting that the original story on the GroundReport Web site has attracted fewer than 200 viewers so far, whereas untold millions have watched television reports in India and around the world.