Report on User-Generated Content (UGC) in TV and Online News

Another interesting report from the Tow Center for Digital Journalism: AMATEUR FOOTAGE: A GLOBAL STUDY OF USER-GENERATED CONTENT IN TV AND ONLINE-NEWS OUTPUT is by Claire Wardle, Sam Dubberley, and Pete Brown. 

This Phase 1 Report (April 2014) represents research that has been split into quantitative and qualitative phases with this report focusing largely on the former.  I couldn't find a timetable for when we might expect Phase II, which will focus on interviews with over 60 journalists and editors, but I'll keep an eye out for it.

Conclusions from the Executive Summary:

1) UGC is used by news organizations daily, but only when other content is not available to tell the story.

2) News organizations are poor and inconsistent in labeling content as UGC and crediting the individual who captured the content.

Our data showed more similarities than differences across television and Web output, with troubling practices across both platforms. The best use of UGC was online, mostly because the Web provides opportunities for integrating UGC into news output like live blogs and topic pages.

Citizen Journalism E-Resources

Searcher Magazine does a series on user-generated content and this month's installment is on citizen journalism. As author Nicholas Tomaiuolo points out, CitJ, is also referred to as open source, grassroots, networked or distributed journalism, so you have a compliment of key words to keep in mind if you're searching this trend in databases. The full article is available at the ASC Library (see me) but Information Today (publisher) provides a handy list of the urls appearing in the article at its website.

These URLs appear in the article: UCONTENT: CITIZEN JOURNALISM by Nicholas Tomaiuolo Instruction Librarian, Central Connecticut State University Searcher, the Magazine for Database Professionals Vol. 17, No. 9 • October 2009

http://fort-greene.blogs.nytimes.com http://maplewood.blogs.nytimes.com/ http://timespeople.nytimes.com/home http://online.wsj.com/community http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree http://www.reddit.com/ http://digg.com/ http://www.topix.com/ http://www.newsvine.com/ http://www.courant.com/community/ http://www.kcnn.org/citmedia_sites REFERENCES http://www.cnn.com/video/#/video/bestoftv/2009/ 06/23/gps.social.media.iran.cnn?iref=videosearch http://www.mediaweek.com/mw/content_display/news/ digital-downloads/broadband/e3i71cdc4be5311379d1ed5a4d5aa4437b0 http://www.newyorker.com/archive/2006/08/07/ 060807fa_fact1?currentPage=all http://www.britannica.com/blogs/2008/04/when-i-hear- the-term-citizen-journalist-i-reach-for-my-pistol-the-blogging-rage/ http://www.netmag.co.uk/zine/discover-interview/andrew-keen http://www.stateofthemedia.org/2009/printable_special_chapter.htm http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2006/ may/31/pressandpublishing.business http://www.cnn.com/2009/TECH/06/16/iran.twitter.facebook/ index.html?iref=newssearch#cnnSTCVideo http://twitter.com/EthanZ/status/2333139296 CITIZEN JOURNALISM IS THE MAIN SOURCE OF CONTENT http://www.allvoices.com/ http://www.cjreport.com/ http://globalvoicesonline.org/ http://www.nowpublic.com/ http://english.ohmynews.com/ http://www.yourarlington.com/ U-CONTENT COMPONENTS OF LARGER NEWS SITES http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/talking_point/default.stm http://www.cbseyemobile.com/ http://www.ireport.com/ http://ureport.foxnews.com/ http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/6639760 http://fort-greene.blogs.nytimes.com/ http://maplewood.blogs.nytimes.com/ http://www.newsvine.com/ http://news.yahoo.com/you-witness-news SITES WITH A LOCAL FOCUS THAT ACCEPT CONTENT SUBMISSIONS FROM USERS http://www.chitowndailynews.org/ http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/citizen-journalism http://www.courant.com/community/ http://www.minnpost.com/ http://www.newwest.net/ LEGACY NEWS SITES WITH MARGINAL USER INTERACTION http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree http://online.wsj.com/community http://timespeople.nytimes.com/ CITIZEN AGGREGATION SITES http://digg.com/ http://www.reddit.com/ http://www.topix.com/ THE REST OF THE STORY http://news.google.com/archivesearch/advanced_search http://www.globalvoicesonline.org/2006