UK: Glasgow Herald appoints 'group multimedia editor', involved in UGC organization
Posted by Jean Yves Chainon on April 10, 2008 at 10:54 AM
The Glasgow Herald Group has created the new position of group multimedia editor..
John Young, former picture editor of the Glasgow Evening Times, will be the first to hold the position. He will lead a team that will focus on all non-text content, including pictures, videos and podcasts, across the Herald's three newspapers.
Young will also be responsible for overseeing the gathering and organization of user-generated content submitted to the Herald's offering of 24 ultra-local community websites. Another 12 will be launched next Monday.
The community sites are one of the Herald's main sources for multimedia content, as users upload a number of their own pictures and videos daily.
As newspapers increase their multimedia and user-generated content, more and more will need to create specific positions to oversee these news forms of content.
Source: journalism.co.uk through SFN Blog
John Young, former picture editor of the Glasgow Evening Times, will be the first to hold the position. He will lead a team that will focus on all non-text content, including pictures, videos and podcasts, across the Herald's three newspapers.
Young will also be responsible for overseeing the gathering and organization of user-generated content submitted to the Herald's offering of 24 ultra-local community websites. Another 12 will be launched next Monday.
The community sites are one of the Herald's main sources for multimedia content, as users upload a number of their own pictures and videos daily.
As newspapers increase their multimedia and user-generated content, more and more will need to create specific positions to oversee these news forms of content.
Source: journalism.co.uk through SFN Blog
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