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The Future of Newsgathering and the Changing Media Landscape
Whistling in the dark at #fng12
Frontline Club - Events: THIRD PARTY EVENT: The future of newsgathering and the changing media landscape19.00 Keynote speaker: Gavin Sheppard, marketing director, Media Trust. 19.30 Panel discussion: The future of newsgathering and the changing media landscape Change in the media landscape is constant. Technology and new media has enabled both journalists and citizens on the street to actually break news themselves.- The panel is Paul Lewis (Guardian), Matthew Eltringham (BBC College of Journalism), Mark Evans (Sky News), Gavin Sheppard (Media Trust) and Ravin Sampat (Blottr) - moderated by Nikki Bedi (BBC)
- Nikki Bedi is reading out the panel's Twitter profiles at #fng12 twitpic.com/a1k9uv
- Gavin says he feels like "a junior Minister on Newsnight" as he's not an esteemed journalist or a newsgatherer. He notes the fundamental shift in the production and consumption of media. He says 91% of adults use a mobile phone - lots of them smartphones.
Somewhat odd there's no blogger or community reporter on the panel #fng12 @johnpopham would've been good.
As the news environment gets noisier people will appreciate the comment and analysis from mainstream more and more. @GavinMediaTrust #FNG12
- Challenges are about needing to take a view much more quickly whether you are a journalist or a politician as a story can gather pace in hours or minutes. People have more technology in their pockets than news organisations had 10 years ago.
#FNG12 @GavinMediaTrust says communities are no longer willing to be bystanders they can circumnavigate media to get voices heard- Opportunity for community produced media needs to be treated as 'a contribution' and possibly paid for. There's lots of it out there - and some of it is high quality and very good; well linked to communities and their concerns - he argues.
RT @Media_Trust: Local news for local communities is a valid and important contribution to the mainstream. @GavinMediaTrust #FNG12- Collaboration is what's happening now. People are recording, sharing. That's journalistic. @PaulLewis #FNG12
- #FNG12 @PaulLewis poses question, what would happen if there were no paid journalists? In riots citizen journalists filled gaps in reporting
- Nikki is asking Ravin if "journalism has moved beyond the stereotype" - mentions coffee swilling reporter typing frantically typing against a deadline. Ravin says we have a 24hr news cycle and news apps, with Twitter being a new source. Consumption is changing so production must - he argues. Technology and people have changed and the combination of these new ways of generating content and news has changed how broadcasters need to behave.
- Paul observes that we do more than we could and we can certainly do better. What's happening is the symbiotic relationship Gavin mentioned - and this opens up new avenues to explore and increased transparency. But it is difficult - where might we end up? Fewer being paid to do journalism but more people doing what might be described as journalism. The riots last year showed that. Between 1 and 4 am Sky and the BBC had to pull out of the area. But the was a constant feed of information online.
#FNG12 @nikkibedi "always the risk of disinformation" @PaulLewis "there has always been disinformation" but social media also regulates self- #FNG12 @GavinMediaTrust if community produced media is embraced by the mainstream media it will only ensure a wider diversity of reporting
- Social media is viral media and it can be self-regulating argues Paul.
- Matthew arguing that the verification of the content produced by local or citizen journalists is an important part of the BBC's approach; such material needs to be forensically examined and verified.
- #FNG12 @skymarkevans says citizen journalism isn't new, he's always used parish magazines etc as a news gathering source
