Training Citizen Journalists

WKRN in Nashville is soliciting video from its audience and training locals, according to Broadcasting and Cable.

In July, it hosted 20 area bloggers, including Chenoweth, for a crash course in video production. At the workshop, station photographers gave instruction on basic videography and critiqued the students' work. "The biggest problem is that people shoot great images but it's shaky and they zoom in and out," says Terry Heaton, a TV-news consultant working with WKRN. "If they find themselves in a spot-news situation, we want it to be usable."

The workshop also gives WKRN a chance to screen bloggers as potential sources. "We've started relationships with them," says station President Mike Sechrist.

The BBC, meanwhile, is also planning on incorporating local contributors into its newsroom, B&C says. Under a new pilot program, the broadcaster is launching 60 stations and plans to have community reporters generate one-fifth of the content.

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