UK: Teesside Evening Gazette to expand citizen journalist team to 1,000
Posted by Katherine Thompson on September 25, 2008 at 8:50 AM
A local UK newspaper is going to increase its team of citizen journalists for its hyperlocal site to 1,000 over the next 12 months.
Trinity Mirror's Teesside Evening Gazette's postcode-based community websites contains content written and posted directly by non-journalists and the Gazette's editorial team. The site currently has about 400 contributors.
The prospective new contributors will be sort out by the Gazette's two community coordinators, who are responsible for moderating and posting additional content to the sites.
The newspaper will increase the number of staffers assigned to enable the expansion. The site attracts 150,000 unique users a month.
The Teesside Evening Gazette is experimenting with Geotagging of content on the TS postcode sites to produce maps of local news and information, such as changes in petrol prices.
Darren Thwaites, editor of the Evening Gazette, said: "We're making money off these sites but the key reason behind this is five print products from the best areas demographically. However, key to these print products is the quality of the content on the websites," he said.
Source: Journalism.co.uk and Press Gazette
Trinity Mirror's Teesside Evening Gazette's postcode-based community websites contains content written and posted directly by non-journalists and the Gazette's editorial team. The site currently has about 400 contributors.
The prospective new contributors will be sort out by the Gazette's two community coordinators, who are responsible for moderating and posting additional content to the sites.
The newspaper will increase the number of staffers assigned to enable the expansion. The site attracts 150,000 unique users a month.
The Teesside Evening Gazette is experimenting with Geotagging of content on the TS postcode sites to produce maps of local news and information, such as changes in petrol prices.
Darren Thwaites, editor of the Evening Gazette, said: "We're making money off these sites but the key reason behind this is five print products from the best areas demographically. However, key to these print products is the quality of the content on the websites," he said.
Source: Journalism.co.uk and Press Gazette
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