Citizen journalists and Youtube succeed where degrees can not. And beware of posting!
The station WKRN found a story they wanted to share with the public. So instead of gathering a news team with reporters and camera crews, they stayed in their studio. But how ever did they get the story?! Well as the Red River was rising and the coast guard was helping people from roof tops, they had their very own camera man, and then they posted the material on youtube. They go reports from citizen journalists and footage from the coast guards very own youtube site. So in hindsight they saved the station a lot of money, and still got the footage they needed. Of course they missed out on having the personal touch to their story, and they didn’t have a reporter on site, but that’s the drawbacks that they accepted.
The youtube clip goes on to advise it’s audience on how to get jobs successfully. They warn that any social networking site you are a member of could be the final say in whether you get the job or not as employers will check your personal accounts. They look at a story about trousers being too low on the waist, but instead on taking opinions from callers, which would have been the traditional route to take, they look at people’s Twitter posts to see what the public think. Times are – a – changing. We better watch what we post, and have our cameras at the ready!
