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In: Canada|journalism|new media|newspapers|user-generated content
13 May 2010In my latest post for PBS Mediashift, I discuss two recent developments in the Canadian media landscape. This week was marked by the purchase of the Canwest newspapers and the launch of OpenFile: Two Canadians took a gamble that local news still matters this week. The two represent the hopes of both old and new [...]
The set of guidelines about user-generated content produced by industry body, the Commonwealth Broadcasting Association (CBA), aims to help broadcasters get the most out of working with the audience. The guidelines, available as a PDF, cover familiar ground on concerns about quality of the content and potential legal issues. It acknowledges that: The most apparent [...]
In my latest piece for PBS Mediashift, I discuss how the mainstream media is incorporating user-generated content, drawing on research presented at the recent Future of Journalism conference. Here’s an excerpt: The ability of anyone to play an active role in the process of collecting, reporting, analyzing and sharing news and information is seen as [...]
A study of UGC at the BBC has found that audience contributions have consolidated, rather than changed, journalistic norms and practices. The study by Claire Wardle, Andrew Williams and Karin Wahl-Jorgensen was presented at the Future of Journalism conference in Cardiff. They found that the BBC mainly views UGC as part of its newsgathering operations, [...]
One of the research papers at the Future of Journalism conference in Cardiff analysed the attitudes of local journalists in the UK towards user-generated content. My colleague, Jane Singer, interviewed local journalists working for the Johnston Press to uncover their views on involving the public in the journalistic process. She found that local journalists see [...]
In: citizen journalism|internet|journalism|user-generated content
1 Sep 2009Image via CrunchBase The big news in the citizen journalism space is that Vancouver-based participatory news site NowPublic.com has been sold to the local news network, Examiner.com. The new owners, Philip Anschutz’s Clarity Media Group, are reported to have paid around $25 million. NowPublic was started in 2005 by Canadian entrepreneurs Leonard Brody, Michael Tippett [...]
In: blogs|citizen journalism|journalism|user-generated content
15 Dec 2008An end of year list by NowPublic.com shows how far user-generated content played a role in the big news events of the year. According to its CEO, Len Brody: 2008 not only proved the concept of user-generated news, but also tipped the scales. The pillars of mainstream media, including the Associated Press, BBC, CBS and [...]
In: BBC|broadcast|citizen journalism|journalism|user-generated content
1 Nov 2008Image by garyturner via Flickr Comments by a senior BBC News executive at the Media Society event, ‘Broadsheet vs Broadband’ in London offer an insight into how the corporation views user-generated content. Pete Clifton, who has the unwieldy title of head of editorial development for multimedia journalism explained how UGC fit into the BBC’s newsgathering: [...]
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BBC sees blog comments as activity of a 'vocal minority'
In: BBC|blogging|citizen journalism|journalism|user-generated content
14 Nov 2008Image via Wikipedia There’s somewhat of a contradiction in the latest posting on the BBC’s Editors Blog by Helen Boaden, director of BBC News. Introducing the post, she writes: This week I gave the keynote speech at the e-Democracy conference. You can read what I said below. I would be interested to know what you [...]