Head of Beeb's multimedia journalism gives his views on the citizen journalist

Pete Clifton, the BBC’s head of editorial development for multimedia journalism gave his thoughtsa nd those of the corportaion on the phenonoman of citizen journalism(Via Journalism Co.uk)

Talking at a media society event,one of the considerations was that of professionalism in using amateur content

The day we just put those up without any questioning of whether that’s right or not is the day we’re in very serious trouble.
“It’s gone through all the filters that our journalism would have gone through. It’s quite labour intensive. We’ve another arm of our newsgathering operation – it can ultimately add to the richness of what we do, but we shouldn’t take it lightly.”