A blizzard of citizen reporting at the BBC: is it a record?

Beckett, Charlie (2009) A blizzard of citizen reporting at the BBC: is it a record? POLIS: journalism and society at the LSE (03 Feb 2009). Website.

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There was an avalanche of user generated content into the BBC this week as (south-east) Britain suffered its heaviest snowfall for twenty years. Head of the BBC Newsroom, Peter Horrocks, claims that 35,000 people sent in stills and videos. Some of it is up on BBC Online, some of it made it to air. Is this a global record for UGC?

Item Type:	Online resource (Website)
Official URL:	http://blogs.lse.ac.uk/polis/
Additional Information:	© 2009 The Author(s)
Divisions:	Media and Communications
Subjects:	P Language and Literature > PN Literature (General) > PN1990 Broadcasting
Date Deposited:	22 May 2017 09:13
Last Modified:	14 Sep 2024 01:53
URI:	http://eprints.lse.ac.uk/id/eprint/78025

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