[CMA] Five News to pay for user generated content

[Michelle McGuire]

[Insert - In the next issue of Airflash Magazine due to be published  
in December, we have an article discussing Citizen Journalism and  
Community Media by Jan Whyatt, Radio Journalism Lecturer at City  
University London]

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Five News to pay for user generated content

Jessica Rogers
6 November


Five News is set to become the first TV news programme to guarantee  
viewers cash in return for their news footage and story ideas.

Five senior controller of news and current affairs Chris Shaw will  
launch the user generated content initiative "Your News" on Monday,  
(13 November) guaranteeing "citizen journalists" a minimum of £100  
and an on screen credit for any stories and clips which get used.  
Viewers will be encouraged to send in clips, stills and stories via  
the Five News website and by text.

Contributors will then be entitled to a share of the profits if the  
network sells the material on to other parties.

There are also plans to create a "Your News" section in the programme  
which will be dedicated exclusively to user-generated content.

Shaw, added: "Five News has always tried to pioneer and "Your News"  
is in effect an editorial relaunch which acknowledges and rewards the  
contributions that viewers can make to the our programmes".

Five news editor Mark Calvert said: "The best stories are those which  
directly affect and feature our audience. This is our way of allowing  
them to share their stories, have direct editorial input into Five  
News, and be rewarded for it."

Source: Broadcast Now - http://www.broadcastnow.co.uk/ 
broadcastnowArticle.aspx?intStoryID=165238


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Michelle McGuire
Editor, Airflash Magazine
Communications Officer
http://www.commedia.org.uk

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