The BBC’s User Generated Content (UGC) Hub does not further meaningful civil participation in the news, and the routine inclusion of UGC does not significantly alter news selection criteria or editorial values. So concludes Jackie Harrison’s study on audience contributions and gatekeeping practices at the BBC. The study found many of the previous barriers to news selection have been removed
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Here’s another draft section from the book chapter on UGC I’m currently writing I’ve written which I’d welcome your input on. I’m particularly interested in any other objectives you can think of that news organisations have for using UGC – or the strategies adopted to achieve those. A common mistake made when first venturing into user generated content is to
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The following is a brief section from a book I’m writing I’ve written on online journalism. I’m publishing it here to invite your thoughts on anything you think I might be missing… There is a long history of audience involvement in news production, from letters to the editor and readers’ photos, to radio and television phone-ins, and texts from viewers
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The Guardian has more URLs bookmarked on Delicious than any other UK newspaper, as I first revealed here.
Lesson 4 in this series of Online Journalism classes looks at User Generated Content (UGC) and Citizen Journalism. Now the students have to think creatively of ways to engage communities in the issues they’re covering (and vice versa): User generated content and citizen journalism View more presentations from Paul Bradshaw. (tags: onlinejournalism journalism)
The Sun has had more submissions to Fark, the social news site, than any other UK newspaper. The Guardian is second.
The Guardian has had more stories submitted to Reddit.com than any other major newspaper site.
The more interesting of the sessions at the BBC’s Future of Journalism conference came on the second day. Head of BBC Newsroom Peter Horrocks spent most of his session fielding questions from employees concerned about how their particular corner of the corporation would be affected by multimedia newsrooms. That aside, general themes from his presentation and responses to questions included:
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Do blogs make reporting restrictions pointless?
Big problem with reporting restrictions & blogs: there’s nothing to stop blogs repeating the information unless they know about the court order. But there’s no way to find out about the court orders.
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