CBC intros ‘civic news’
p2pnet.net News:- Online, when it comes to news and information, bloggers rule. It’s called “citizen reporting”. People-to-people. Decentralised journalism. And as the Technorati ear-piece says, “55 million blogs —— some of them have to be be good.”
They are. In fact, some of them are a lot better than mainstream media, and now the CBC, Canada’s national broadcaster, is taking note of the Net, killing its national evening Canada Now to introduce one-hour regional local newscasts featuring ‘civic journalism’, and airing at 6 pm.
People in Vancouver will be the first Canadians to be able to upload video or images of news events, although, “The CBC has yet to determine how it will vet and use images and information from its viewers and listeners,” it says.
And as the story points out, this is already being done by America’s CNN and Britain’s BBC: the latter used images forwarded by cellphone users to, “broadcast up-to-the-minute information of what was happening in parts of London during last year’s bombings”.
“CBC will redefine its relationship with its audience,” says Tony Burman, CBC News editor-in-chief. “We want to further the local voice that we already hear on our local programs.”
Canadians want more local content and, “What we want to build here is the local news service of the 21st century – a news service designed from the beginning to run on all platforms simultaneously,” says CBC vp of English television, Richard Stursberg from Vancouver.
Just like the Net. And guess what the new “integrated” service is being called?
MyCBC.
Stay tuned.
Also See:
CBC – CBC to restore one-hour local news shows, cancel Canada Now, November 30, 2006
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