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"Few newsrooms are leveraging the storytelling potential of their audience and working with citizen reporters and their footage in meaningful ways. The recent Tow Center study on user-generated content found that “UGC is used by news organizations daily and can produce stories that otherwise would not, or could not, be told. However, it is often only used when other imagery is not available.”
The reporting projects below do not use citizen content only as a last resort. Instead, they work with citizens as collaborators in sourcing, investigating and reporting stories. They curate citizen content by finding, verifying and presenting reports from the communities they cover and help their audience understand the larger story that they contribute to. They have resulted in consequential and award-winning coverage, and for journalism educators gathered at this week’s annual AEJMC conference, as well as newsroom editors and entrepreneurs, they provide models of innovation worth paying attention to."
Read the full article to link directly to and find out more about these innovative collaborative storytelling opportunities:
- India's community correspondents
- Reports from prison
- Making sense of a deluge of war videos
- Facilitating a community storytelling process
- Eyewitness videos form centerpiece of investigation
Take a look at these sites and be inspired. How could you create your own collaborative storytelling effort for your family, group or community?
Be sure to check out part 2 of this article Skills, Attitudes and Approaches for the Journalist as Curator for more examples, tips, and things to consider when working in these types of collaborative projects.