"[There is] a whole category problem with online journalism: people with no understanding of it, and with no understanding of how useable media comes about and comes to be trusted, can airily and condescendingly claim a company "gets it" just because they

Political journalists in France are leaving newspapers to launch two new web sites because they are disillusioned with the state of French press. Both sites rely on citizen journalism, but one is ad-supported and free while the other is betting on paid c

Scott Karp: "The reality is that ‘average people’ don’t create a lot of content — at least not the commercially viable kind. Most people are too busy."

"Guardian Unlimited is to roll out a major interactive film database as part of plans to ramp up its See Film Differently site."

"CondéNet, the interactive arm of Condé Nast, is set to overhaul the online presence of Tatler and the wider CondéNet strategy": No UGC, no news, but a restaurant guide.

"Topix – a 25 person company that is 80 percent owned by Gannett, Tribune and McClatchy – … is now getting 60 percent of its content from user generated posts."

The BBC’s log of material sent to it from people inside Burma.

Sir Christopher Meyer’s comments on the PCC and online video: "the PCC’s concern was with, to put it in shorthand, editorial material not user-generated content. That, basically, is how it has come out in the PressBoF guidance note of February 8."

"TVNZ and TV3 say they have tightened procedures for accepting photos from the public after a picture of a tornado used by both networks during their news bulletins turned out to be a fake."

"he first photograph of the failed car-bomb attack on the Tiger Tiger nightclub, in Haymarket, Central London, is thought to have netted the amateur photographer in excess of £20,000.." (HT: RH)

Paul Bradshaw: "Most impressive is a tagging system which allows users to click through to articles on the same subject/person - potentially making the accompanying ‘Related articles’ box redundant."

The editor-in-chief of Monocle, "Tyler Brûlé has hit out at the embrace of user-generated content by global newspapers and magazines."