BBC talks user-generated video

[by Jeremy Vaught, Blogger - Seesmic]

On journalism.co.uk, a blog for journalists, Richard Sambrook is quoted discussing the BBC and user-generated video.  Richard Sambrook is the Director of Global News for the BBC and he was talking about the "future of international news both inside and outside the BBC".

His comments are interesting because they reflect what the BBC has seen and hope to see from using technologies like Seemic.  Right now he says, "there's not much newsgathering going on."  News does happen, take for example this video of a carjacking posted to Seesmic.  Or the videos that Steve Garfield and others have posted following the campaign trail.  Steve is even talking about this very topic in his class at Boston University.  Obviously I can pull examples, but yes, there is not much news being captured on Seesmic as there will be in the future, and that's what Richard goes on to talk about.

Richard goes on to say, "The future increasingly is live and it's dynamic.  This kind of video blogging is already getting integrated. That's just started and it's going to grow incredibly fast.  You're going to see very dynamic video dialogue conversations with the public opening up very rapidly.

"All journalists will start to find video important," he said, emphasizing that "international news organisations that fail to innovate and utilise the internet to its full potential will go out of business."

"It's important to remember we are in the very beginning of what is a transformational change in terms of journalism.  While there are more global news channels than ever before, major newspapers and broadcasters are closing their overseas bureaux at far greater rates than before."

There is more of course at journalism.co.uk.  I for one am excited to see how Seesmic will change the way news is gathered and distributed.  It is an exciting time, change is happening, thanks for joining us on this ride.

Comments

[steve Garfield]

Thanks for the mention! Exciting times.