@DNA2008: Sky News to embed SkyCast video sharing tool
Tuesday, 4 March 2008, 09:21
Sky News plans to embed a white-label version of Sky’s video sharing tool, SkyCast, into news pages on to encourage user submissions of video.
Sky News associate editor Simon Bucks noted the move in a panel on user-submitted content at the DNA conference in Brussels today.
Sky News already has a still photo sharing section on its [...]
@Beyond the Printed Word: MySun moderators tested on 152-page policy
Thursday, 8 November 2007, 13:12
Danny Dagan, head of online communities at News Group Digital which runs MySun and provides moderation for the News of the World and thelondonpaper.
The Sun and its sister titles take a very strict line on moderating content submitted to their sites, its approach is that contributing under the tabloids’ brands is very different than blogging [...]
How Five Live is putting user-generated content to use
Thursday, 28 June 2007, 10:03
In October an angry email from a listener, Rick Costello, landed in the inbox of BBC Radio Five Live. The email told how he had been diagnosed with inoperable, terminal cancer and of his fury that the Government was refusing to pay for his winter fuel allowance while he was undergoing treatment.
The breakfast team followed [...]
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