Comments on: Broadsheet vs Broadband: BBC’s Pete Clifton on citizen journalism http://blogs.journalism.co.uk/editors/2008/10/31/broadsheet-vs-broadband-bbcs-pete-clifton-on-citizen-journalism/ Online journalism news Fri, 06 Nov 2009 16:28:58 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.5 hourly 1 By: User-generated content as a form of newsgathering « Reportr.net http://blogs.journalism.co.uk/editors/2008/10/31/broadsheet-vs-broadband-bbcs-pete-clifton-on-citizen-journalism/comment-page-1/#comment-7469 User-generated content as a form of newsgathering « Reportr.net Sat, 01 Nov 2008 16:50:20 +0000 http://blogs.journalism.co.uk/editors/?p=4206#comment-7469 [...] 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. [...] [...] 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. [...]

]]> By: Mike http://blogs.journalism.co.uk/editors/2008/10/31/broadsheet-vs-broadband-bbcs-pete-clifton-on-citizen-journalism/comment-page-1/#comment-7438 Mike Fri, 31 Oct 2008 14:47:06 +0000 http://blogs.journalism.co.uk/editors/?p=4206#comment-7438 It is inevitable that community journalism is going to be one of the fastest growing areas of journalism in the future. You've only got to look at the huge success of wikipedia and the 10,000s of local community sites just in the UK to realise that there is a potential army of people willing to put their own time into community journalism if only they have the means to focus that energy. In the traditional "hard media" of print news space had to be rationed to that which was of common interest throughout a large community. With modern "soft-media" the breakeven point for community size had dramatically downsized, and unfortunately, the journalistic community has yet to realise this. The idea of journalists reporting on the news is going to become far less important as more and more content comes onstream from outwith the journalistic profession. More and more the journalist will become a clearing house vetting output from others, supporting and enabling this huge army of unpaid community journalists to report on news at a much more local or much more niche level. E.g. a particular village, a particular interest, even news tailor-made for those of particular religions. It is inevitable that community journalism is going to be one of the fastest growing areas of journalism in the future. You’ve only got to look at the huge success of wikipedia and the 10,000s of local community sites just in the UK to realise that there is a potential army of people willing to put their own time into community journalism if only they have the means to focus that energy.

In the traditional “hard media” of print news space had to be rationed to that which was of common interest throughout a large community. With modern “soft-media” the breakeven point for community size had dramatically downsized, and unfortunately, the journalistic community has yet to realise this.

The idea of journalists reporting on the news is going to become far less important as more and more content comes onstream from outwith the journalistic profession. More and more the journalist will become a clearing house vetting output from others, supporting and enabling this huge army of unpaid community journalists to report on news at a much more local or much more niche level. E.g. a particular village, a particular interest, even news tailor-made for those of particular religions.

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