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How do professional news organizations in the Netherlands react to amateur images?
• 2 National newscasts• 2 Local TV news • 3 National newspapers• 2 Free newspapers• 3 Local papers
Pro-am model
• Democratisation of professional news media• Enrichment and corrective for journalism• Means for cheap and compelling material• Thread for journalism’s authority
User-generated content
• UGC is mainly text• Published mainly online• Moderation• Payment is an issue
Three categories:
1. news images (accidents and crime)2. weather / nature picture3. human interest
Misfortunes
Before we had footage, we already had video from people who filmed it themselves, 15 minutes after it happened
Sunsets
Memories
Authenticity
I used news photos from blogs in Burma. It’s definitely more authentic; it brings the news closer to you
It looks good, even if it’s badly filmed, with a moving camera, shaking images. It offers a lot of authenticity.
Responsibility
On Internet we published the picture without any problems. But when we wanted to put it in the newspaper, there were a lot of discussions. (…) Internet is different.
What we do to our own TV material, we also do to this material.
I believe in user-generated content but I don’t believe that users can decide what is news.
Checking facts, something citizen journalists don’t do, is a condition to call it journalism.
Authority
Discussion
• No threat to authority
• No collaboration, just more sources
• ‘Hard news’ images are rare
• Images have other (unexpected) values
• Community building as main goal
