Hammersley on journalistic transparency
Posted by
Martin Stabe
on 27 June 2007 at 09:34
Tags: BBC, Flickr, YouTube, del.icio.us, twitter
Ben Hammersley, who is in Turkey as part of an experimental BBC reporting project using social media tools, explains why he is producing behind-the-scenes material about his work to sites like YouTube, Flickr, del.icio.us and Twitter.
The modern journalist, Hammersley writes in a piece for BBC News Online’s Magazine, is “a multi-media creature, feeding the beasts of television, radio and the web”. But this, he says, means viewers have far less understanding of how the news is actually produced.
“Many do want to preserve the mystique, but frankly, I think it’s easier, and more productive in the end, to do what my maths teacher was always forlornly begging me to do, and show my working,” he says.
Tags: BBC, Flickr, YouTube, del.icio.us, twitter
