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# Is journalist-created UGC really UGC?
- URL: https://onemanandhisblog.com/2018/11/is-journalist-created-ugc-really-ugc/
- Published: 2018-11-15T15:48:24.000Z
- Updated: 2018-11-15T15:48:24.000Z
- Description: Should a journalist be asking another journalist for their video?
- Author: Adam Tinworth
- Tags: user generated content, crowd-sourced journalism, fair dealing

I've just been watching an exchange on Twitter with baited breath. A journalist is asking another journalist for permission to use their video (for free) on their website:

> Hi Adam, I hope you're well. I'm a video journalist from the Evening Standard. Could we have permission to use this video on our platforms? With credit to you of course. Thanks, Kate [pic.twitter.com/x4yMQBFqll](https://t.co/x4yMQBFqll?ref=onemanandhisblog.com)
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> — Kate Moore (@kitmoore) [November 15, 2018](https://twitter.com/kitmoore/status/1063078913142857728?ref%5Fsrc=twsrc%5Etfw&ref=onemanandhisblog.com)

Adam works for *Business Insider* and Kate for the *Evening Standard*. This won't end well, surely? Why would a journalist surrender such a piece for free - even if it's pretty trivial? And it's so short, there's no way an extract from it could be considered fair dealing for reporting purposes. 

And then the response came back:

> thank you
> 
> — Kate Moore (@kitmoore) [November 15, 2018](https://twitter.com/kitmoore/status/1063083304717557761?ref%5Fsrc=twsrc%5Etfw&ref=onemanandhisblog.com)

Well, that was an anti-climax. It's almost like journalists are actually decent, thoughtful people much of the time…

It's amusing to see the standard "UGC" sourcing approach being applied to a fellow journalist, though, rather than a random member of the public. I was quite genuinely expecting some form of negative reply, so kudos to Adam Bienkov for being more classy than I usually expect of journalists…

I do like the little "permission" graphic the *Evening Standard* are using: 

![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/36/d8/36d823b7-59a1-4c8b-91bd-a54c64552596/content/images/2018/11/DsDQlG6WoAEh0Nb.jpg)

That's a nice idea.