The latest Hitwise Report on US news and media consumption shows trends over the last year.
One of the biggest increases is the use of video websites and through them the growth of citizen generated video content. What is happening is that people are using news sources to pick up a breaking story and then access video footage.
With the increased use of video enabled mobile phones citizen journalists are literally ‘on site’ as the incident occurs. Professional news crews take time to assemble, arrive and deploy and in many cases cannot get as close to the story source as those involved.
Most news organisations have now started to encourage citizen journalists to contribute stories, video and audio content in a more structured fashion. This does not just apply to the broadcast media but the press too.
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