Bilal Randeree - @bilalrOnline Producer, Al Jazeerabilal.randeree@gmail.com

Citizen journalism - from the other side

Journalist at Al Jazeera

Rely on technology, internet and emails, phone-calls and social media, etc - To both find the story AND tell the story

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Access & Amplification

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Citizen Journalism vs UGC

Citizen Journalism = UGC ?

Citizen Journalism > or < UGC

Citizen Journalism/UGC + Professional Journalism = Better

product

Community! online and offline

- Provide content- Enhance stories- Sometimes useful, sometimes

not- Never news itself.

Online tools to use

• Twitter• Curation• Quick, immediate• Rocks in one hand, phone in

the other• Dotting RT’s & crossing you

@’s• Links to tweets

Twitter• Seesmic - mobile & web• Tweetdeck, hootsuite, etc•Social flow – automated, intelligent..

Keepstream•bookmark tweets•add captions - context•good tool for looking back•enhance stories•Embed into piece with context

•Storify•@AJStream – stream.aljazeera.com

• Dipity•easy tool to create timeline of content

•Simile Timeline•For advanced users who understand

coding

Mapping•Crowdsourcing - ushahidi.•mapping with location information• - with pics, using Flickr or automatic data

from smartphones• - with tweets, if users turn location on

Images•UGC - need images/video of significant

events - get content of not very NB events• - Flickr - good search feature, yet its still

hard to find good, recent images• Creative Commons• Create groups - gather images around a

certain event in one place• Twitter for images/video - twitpic, Yfrog,

Moby

Videos•youtube - better than facebook•easy to embed - and also embed at a

certain point &start=• splicd, dailymotion, vimeo, viddler, • audioboo - very useful, quicker format,

great for breaking news. We used extensively in Egypt, with our own reporters - has location data as well

• Skype & Live mobile video - Qik, Bambuser, Kyte

Videos•youtube - better than facebook•easy to embed - and also embed at a

certain point &start=• splicd, dailymotion, vimeo, viddler, • audioboo - very useful, quicker format,

great for breaking news. We used extensively in Egypt, with our own reporters - has location data as well

• Skype & Live mobile video - Qik, Bambuser, Kyte