UK: Glasgow Evening Times uses reader photo on page one
Posted by Lindsay Berrigan on March 26, 2007 at 3:00 PM
On Friday March 23, the Glasgow Evening Times for the first time used a photo taken by a reader on its front page.
Reader Paul O’Brien caught the image of a woman being rescued from a river by a military helicopter on his mobile phone and sent it to the Times, which used to photo on its website as well as print edition.
Though no Times photographers were at the scene, the paper still had six photos to choose from, all taken on readers’ phones and emailed to the Times. Photo editor John Young said that though the picture quality was not perfect, “With a news picture it's sometimes content rather than quality that matters."
As citizen journalism has generally remained an online phenomenon, newspapers often include user-generated content only on their websites. However, the inclusion of reader content in print editions, let alone on the front page, is a sure sign of further convergence of professional and amateur journalism. This could perhaps provide both a new venue for pro-am journalism and a new life for print.
Source: Online Press Gazette through Ifra Executive News Service
Though no Times photographers were at the scene, the paper still had six photos to choose from, all taken on readers’ phones and emailed to the Times. Photo editor John Young said that though the picture quality was not perfect, “With a news picture it's sometimes content rather than quality that matters."
As citizen journalism has generally remained an online phenomenon, newspapers often include user-generated content only on their websites. However, the inclusion of reader content in print editions, let alone on the front page, is a sure sign of further convergence of professional and amateur journalism. This could perhaps provide both a new venue for pro-am journalism and a new life for print.
Source: Online Press Gazette through Ifra Executive News Service
Posted in :
0 TrackBacks
Listed below are links to blogs that reference this entry: UK: Glasgow Evening Times uses reader photo on page one.
TrackBack URL for this entry: http://www.editorsweblog.org/mt/mt-tb.cgi/4965
Leave a comment