August 11, 2005
Special Report
PoliticsOnline presents "London Bombing and Citizen Journalist Response", featuring an exclusive from BBC's Kate Goldberg.
Last month, images and stories of the tragic London bombings pervaded television and Internet media around the globe, but remarkably professional journalists and photographers found themselves unable to take credit. July’s London bombings provided one of the first major examples of world news documented by unintentional journalists—bystanders and survivors who utilized camera phones and other wireless technology to document their experience. This was only the latest and most vivid example of the global trend of ‘user generated content’ (UGC) that is beginning to have a radical impact with the news media worldwide. Now that a little time has passed, PoliticsOnline offers perspective on what happened. Read the whole report at http://www.politicsonline.com/content/main/specialreports/2005/londonbombing/ Let us know what you think. Emily Miller, Editor
Phil Noble, Publisher
phil@politicsonline.com
editor@politicsonline.com
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