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User Generated Content: Time To Consider The Ethical Conundrums As Well As The Opportunities, Julie N. Posetti Jan 2014

User Generated Content: Time To Consider The Ethical Conundrums As Well As The Opportunities, Julie N. Posetti

Faculty of Law, Humanities and the Arts - Papers (Archive)

Local police confirm there is an active shooter situation in a shopping centre... User-generated content is going to be the only source of content before your crews can get there. A producer identifies someone in the shopping centre. You can see that they have a good vantage point because they’ve already tweeted a photo of what looks like bodies on the ground. If verified this would be the first image from inside. How do you proceed?"


Juggling Ethical Dilemmas Of User-Generated Content In The Newsroom, Julie N. Posetti, J Sparks, A Matthews Jan 2014

Juggling Ethical Dilemmas Of User-Generated Content In The Newsroom, Julie N. Posetti, J Sparks, A Matthews

Faculty of Law, Humanities and the Arts - Papers (Archive)

That is one of the User Generated Content- (UGC) related ethical conundrums posed by a panel of experts at the International Newsroom Summit in Amsterdam last week. The panel, featuring the BBC's Steve Herrmann, AP's Fergus Bell and Google's Director of Communications for Europe, the Middle East and Africa Peter Barron, was moderated by UNHCR social media strategist Claire Wardle. Jessica Sparks and Alice Matthews explore the UGC issues that should have newsrooms ethically engaged.