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Is journalist-created UGC really UGC?

Should a journalist be asking another journalist for their video?

Reddit for Journalists

Three speakers at news:rewired talking about use of Reddit in journalism, moderated by Mark Frankel, assistant editor, social news, BBC James Cook, Daily Dot There’s two main tasks: Finding new stories Sharing stories How do you get started? Sign up. That allows

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news:rewired Crowdsourcing

So, onto other people’s panels, and I’ve plumped for the crowd-sourcing one, as I’m not local enough for the local panel and not clever enough for the data-mashing one… The speakers have placed very heavy emphasis on the verification process, from

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Twitter, News and Mob Journalism

And that’s the key thing to understand about these distributed, mass publication media. They are not inherently good or bad. They are not a force for good or evil, but merely a vehicle in which the voices of the many can be raised

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The Day Twitter Destroyed a Gagging Order

What a morning it has been. The phrase “historic moment” is desperately over-used, but it genuinely feels like one just occurred. A very old media process happened – a company got a gagging order on a national newspaper, to try and quash a negative story

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Flightblogger Breaks Obama Running Mate Story

One of our bloggers [broke the Obama running mate story](http://www.flightglobal.com/blogs/flightblogger/2008/08/vice-presidential-picks-and-pl.html). Here’s how:He knew that the candidate’s planes go into shop for re-painting around the time of the announcement. He put a