Mar 30, 2016The art of being in the wrong place at the right time: behind the scenes of social media newsgatheringThis reflection was written by David Crunelle and first appeared in the original French on his website www.davidcrunelle.blogspot.com. This translation is published here with Mr Crunelle’s permission. The original can be viewed here. The goal of writing this blogpost is to shed some light on what happens behind the scenes…Social Media8 min readSocial Media8 min read
Published inFirst Draft Footnotes·Oct 20, 2015‘I feel like I cannot say no to looking at horrific UGC because I want to do well in my career’New research shows how vicarious trauma is a serious issue for journalists looking at User-Generated Content. EMHub’s Sam Dubberley explains why newsrooms and their managers have to treat it as such. — Find more reads and resources on newsgathering, verification and eyewitness media at FirstDraftNews.com One of the reasons Eyewitness Media Hub decided to study the impact of vicarious trauma in newsrooms and across human rights and humanitarian organisations came from a quote in our 2014 research into broadcast news outlets’ use…Eyewitness Media7 min readEyewitness Media7 min read
Sep 9, 2015Eyewitness Media Hub launch Guiding Principles for JournalistsIt’s been over a year since we launched our Tow Center research on the use of User Generated Content by 24-hour television news organisations. The report’s tweetable headline was: “it’s a Wild West out there”, an observation which led us to form Eyewitness Media Hub in the first place. …Journalism3 min readJournalism3 min read
Published inFirst Draft Footnotes·Sep 7, 2015Capturing Securely: Apps that Increase Your Security in the Fieldby Sam Dubberley from Eyewitness Media Hub for First Draft Image courtesty Flick user prazz https://www.flickr.com/photos/prazz/ shared under a Creative Commons licence Find more reads and resources on newsgathering, verification and eyewitness media at FirstDraftNews.com Imagine the following. You’re out in the street and stumble across a demonstration. Instinctively, you…Verification6 min readVerification6 min read
Published inFirst Draft Footnotes·Aug 25, 2015“OMG I can’t ever unsee that”: What happened when the aftermath of the Bangkok bomb blast was streamed live on PeriscopeBy Pete Brown, Research Director, Eyewitness Media Hub Find more reads and resources on newsgathering, verification and eyewitness media at FirstDraftNews.com When Twitter first lit up with rumours of an explosion in Bangkok on Monday I did something I’d never previously done during a breaking news event — I turned…Periscope6 min readPeriscope6 min read
Jun 15, 2015Making Secondary Trauma a Primary IssueEyewitness Media Hub is embarking on a cross-industry study into the impact of traumatic footage — and we need your help Image shared under Creative Commons licence courtesy: https://www.flickr.com/photos/bowbrick/ Eyewitness Media Hub, with the support of the Open Society Foundation, is conducting a cross-industry study into the impact of vicarious trauma on journalists, human rights investigators and humanitarian aid workers who frequently search for eyewitness media in their work. Sam Dubberley — who makes up the research team along with Pete Brown — explains why this is so important and what the study aims to achieve.4 min read4 min read
Apr 17, 2015‘They stole it from my Instagram’New research study explores how newspaper websites use eyewitness media Photo: Michal Oravec https://www.flickr.com/photos/92684950@N05/9191819948/ Early findings from our new research study will be presented at the International Journalism Festival in Perugia later today. …2 min read2 min read
Mar 16, 2015Private messaging apps could push eyewitness media under the radarimage from http://thenextweb.com/future-of-communications/2015/02/16/people-still-using-sms-2015/ As newsrooms get to grips with finding and verifying stories shared publicly on social networks, a new set of challenges are beginning to emerge as users prioritise privacy and simplicity. A guest post by Damian Radcliffe Two new social phenomena got the technorati buzzing last year. The first was the rise of anonymous social networks manifest in channels (with wonderful URLs) like Secret and Whisper; and the seemingly ubiquitous Snapchat. …5 min read5 min read
Published inFirst Draft Footnotes·Mar 12, 2015Protecting the Victim’s IdentityShould we do more to protect the identity of victims featured in eyewitness media? — Photograph by Max Sat — https://www.flickr.com/photos/96092563@N08/16061803342/ by Sam Dubberley (Director of Eyewitness Media Hub) Find more reads and resources on newsgathering, verification and eyewitness media at FirstDraftNews.com In an interview with the BBC broadcast on March 11th, Souleymane S., the man racially abused by fans of the English football club…4 min read4 min read
Feb 22, 2015Handing it over: Case study of the Chelsea racism videoWhen you own a video that goes viral, does it pay to have a Rights Department on your side? — Screengrab from theguardian.com/video: Paul Nolan by Jenni Sargent (Director of Eyewitness Media Hub) Paul Nolan was the latest eyewitness to find himself at the centre of a media scrum as news organisations around the world responded to his footage of Chelsea fans pushing a black man off a Paris metro…5 min read5 min read
