I just signed up to a site that’s going to allow me to add some great content to my blogs. The site is called The News Room. This site will allow me to include news stories in the form of video, video feeds, images or text articles to my posts.

The content is fully licensed and comes from major content providers such as the Associate press and Reuters.

What’s really great about The News Room is that by using content from the site I can actually make some money. Yeah, content and some extra cash too. I think it’s a pretty sweet deal.

If you want to join in, all you need to do is visit the site and sign up, and then simply browse through the various categories until you find an interesting news story that suits your site. All you need to do at that point is Mash to content. By this I mean just push the mash button in the top right corner of the content and then follow the instructions which allow you to set up how the content looks on your site and then copy the code to paste into your article. It’s really easy.

I was happy to see that I could even find cool video content that suits this site like this news story about Criss Angel the magician. Yesterday he climbed into a cube encased in concrete that suspended 40 feet over the ground near Times Square:

The bonus part about using content from The News Room is two fold.

1. I get paid a certain amount per every thousand views (CPM) for the content I add to my site, and the payout is decent. The lowest is $1 per CPM, and the highest is $4 per CPM. When you consider that a lot of affiliate ads that you can run on your sites, perhaps in your sidebars only pay about .15 per CPM you realize that this could be a pretty good way to make some cash.

2. If someone comes along and they like the video or text article that you’ve added to your post they too can click on that Mash button in the top right of the added content and add it to their own site, and you still make some money by their using the content that they got from your site.

Check it out for yourself. It’s free to use and there’s a great selection of news items to chose from. You won’t be disappointed.