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Finding "real people": trust and diversity in the interface between professional and citizen journalists

Lookup NU author(s): Dr Andy Garbett, Dr Robert Comber, Professor Patrick OlivierORCiD

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Abstract

The increase of social media and web blogs has enabled a new generation of citizen journalism to provide new perspectives into local communities. However traditional news organisations are currently struggling to incorporate this new form of journalism into their existing organisational workflow. We present an analysis from 10 interviews with professional journalists and explore the current issues faced by professional journalists when searching for reliable and reputable local news sources as well as the perceived role of citizen journalists within a large news organisation. From this analysis we present a set of design implications for building systems that support interaction between citizen and professional journalists in order to encourage participatory news production and diversify national news perspectives.

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Author(s): Garbett AT, Comber R, Egglestone P, Glancy M, Olivier P

Publication type: Conference Proceedings (inc. Abstract)

Publication status: Published

Conference Name: Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI '14)

Year of Conference: 2014

Pages: 3015-3024

Date deposited: 02/05/2014

Publisher: ACM Press

URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/2556288.2557114

DOI: 10.1145/2556288.2557114

Library holdings: Search Newcastle University Library for this item

ISBN: 9781450324731

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