Current TV to hire UK vlogging journalists

February 6th, 2008Posted by Oliver Luft in Citizen journalism, Journalism, Multimedia, Online Journalism

User-generated video blogging platform Current is planning to hire journalists in the UK to contribute to short video news posts and edit other video contributions.

The platform aimed at an audience of young adults recently made an agreement with Salon and The Guardian to supply vlogs (video blogs) to its online peer-to-peer news network. Reporters for The Guardian started filing pieces last week.

The platform, which also runs a cable TV channel, this week placed ads on Journalism.co.uk and looking to hire a Newspod producer and a NewsPod preditor (essentially a journalist/video editor) in the UK to create news packages for its headline news service.

The newspod producer will be responsible for working video feeds selecting news stories, scripting and performing voice-overs for Current’s headline news service. The preditor will be responsible for producing and editing news packages.

Tags: blogs, Cable TV, Digital video, Journalism.co.uk, online peer-to-peer news network, peer-to-peer, Podcast, Salon, television, The Guardian, United Kingdom

One Response to “Current TV to hire UK vlogging journalists”

JohnofScribbleSheet Says:

February 6th, 2008 at 5:38 pm
Ive been a fan of current for quite a while, I am looking forward to seeing what they do in the UK.

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