BBC’s Sambrook on citizen journalism

Posted by Martin Stabe on 20 March 2006 at 14:38
Tags: BBC, Citizen journalism, Journalism

Guest-blogging over at Robin Hamman’s Cybersoc, Richard Sambrook, the BBC’s director of global news, says there are four different activities which are being lumped together as “citizen journalism”:

• The use of eyewitness accounts, pictures and video
• The integration of user comment or blogs into news coverage
• News broken on the Web
• Using the public to develop and inform journalism.

Integrating these activities, Sambrook says, have all become part of the “routine reflex” of news organisations in the past 12 months.

Tags: BBC, Citizen journalism, Journalism