NBC11: New user-generated video section

NBC11.com (site of Bay Area NBC affiliate KNTV) has launched a nice new user-generated video section called "Moving Pictures."

Chronicle reports:

Editors are trying a hybrid model as a way to test user-generated coverage. Last month, they gave digital still cameras to a dozen viewers, including an injured Iraqi war veteran and a gravedigger. Editors and reporters at the station reviewed the photos, then returned to interview the subjects and tell a "Moving Pictures" story based on the still images.

At first blush, some photos seemed odd -- like the picture of a footbridge sent by a Richmond teen.

"But when we went back to interview her, she said, 'This is the only place I can feel safe from the violence around here,' " said KNTV Assistant News Director Mark Neerman, who conceived of the "Moving Pictures" idea. "Now that's something that we probably wouldn't get in a traditional news story."

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