WAN Amsterdam Conferences: 24.com's Buckland says "limited gate keeping" is necessary for citizen journalism
Posted by Katherine Thompson on October 15, 2008 at 10:46 AM
24.com's Matthew Buckland said today at the World Association of Newspapers' Digital Publishing and Readership Conference in Amsterdam that "limited gate keeping" is necessary for citizen journalism sites.
In an interview with the Editors Weblog, Buckland said that if a media company wishes to have a "hands off" citizen journalist site then it should market it under a separate brand.
Speaking about the recent erroneous story on CNN's iReport site - which reported that Steve Jobs, CEO of Apple, had died - Buckland said in this instance, "CNN's implementation of citizen journalism failed." Buckland made it clear that he did not believe that this incident highlighted a weakness with the concept of citizen journalist, but that this error simply made it clear that policing is necessary.
In an interview with the Editors Weblog, Buckland said that if a media company wishes to have a "hands off" citizen journalist site then it should market it under a separate brand. Speaking about the recent erroneous story on CNN's iReport site - which reported that Steve Jobs, CEO of Apple, had died - Buckland said in this instance, "CNN's implementation of citizen journalism failed." Buckland made it clear that he did not believe that this incident highlighted a weakness with the concept of citizen journalist, but that this error simply made it clear that policing is necessary.
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