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8/9/2019 SPJ Digital Media Handbook
http://slidepdf.com/reader/full/spj-digital-media-handbook 1/48
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Contents
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Sharing news has never been easier: A word
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Q. As a former news director, how do you view user-submitted photo and video content?
A: Using user-submitted content is always something that I would be hesitant about in
the sense that you just don’t know where it’s coming from. Well, you might know where
it’s coming from, but you might not have a handle on how you got it. Did you get it
because somebody had just simply gone out and shot video or recorded sound and did nothing else but just send it to you? Or was there some kind of editing in the pre-stages
before you got it? Well, if that’s the case, then now you don’t really know just what you
ended up with. So that’s always a problem.
You also don’t know necessarily how reliable the person is. Again, is it just Joe Citizen
trying to be a good guy? Or is it somebody trying to get his name out there to get attention for himself? So on and so forth. So I have a lot of questions about it. Now,
having said all the downsides, now the upside is you can get people involved. You can get
some very interesting shots, stills, video, perhaps some kind of (Zapruder)-type film that nobody else would possibly have. So you never want to dismiss it out of hand, but you just
have to be very careful about it. So that’s my big thing, be careful about it. Try to figureout where it came from. At the same time, embrace the possibilities that it does present.
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onto the air or makes it onto the Web site and it gets highlighted in some fashion. What
qualities or how would you evaluate a user-submitted content that would make the cut
that would go beyond just the user-generated platform?
A: I think it has to be the unique value of what that is. If a tornado rolls through your
town and you happened to have your camera in the car and, instead of taking cover, youtake a moment to video the tornado and nobody else does … Your video is going to be
used all over the place, my guess is. If many people are shooting and recording and
video-ing certain things, then the best is going to be used and yours may be pushed downin terms of that unique quality. So, I think it all has to do with the story. With the interest
in the story and certainly with your unique offering.
Are you the first on the scene? Are you like the guy that Twittered the first photo of the
plane in the Hudson? Everybody saw that. And it was because it was unique and timely
and it was of a very perishable nature, in the sense that that scene, nobody else could get because the plane was sinking. So that was a terrific shot. It all goes back to, again, what
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