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The gap between the professional and non-professional news gatherers is getting narrower
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he BBC has received more than 1,000 still pictures of the unfolding events and 300 different bits of amateur video since the explosions, prompting senior executives to reassess internal guidelines governing use of unsolicited material.
Helen Boaden, BBC director of news, said: “No one knows where this is going to take us. The gap between the professional and non-professional news gatherers is getting narrower.”
That sentiment was echoed at Sky News, the TV news outlet for British Sky Broadcasting.
Simon Bucks, associate editor of Sky News, said: “This is probably the first big story in Britain where we have seen this effect, where camera phones allow eyewitnesses a method of recording news and getting it broadcast.”
Detecives hunting the bombers also made a special appeal to the public for any mobile phone images and video footage captured in London on the day of the bombings, especially from those near the site of the attacks. They urged members of the public with such images to email them to Scotland Yard at images@met.police.uk.
Sky News is offering contributors whose material is used the equivalent of a half-day freelance rate, or about £250 ($434, €364), for the copyright to photographic images.
The BBC, however, insists that images it receives are offered royalty-free with a non-exclusive licence to publish the material in any way it wants.
Use of witness images, many of them containing horrific scenes, could spark an internal media debate over the rules governing copyright and decency.
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FT.com / Terror / London blasts - Mobile phone images present dilemma for TV
he BBC has received more than 1,000 still pictures of the unfolding events and 300 different bits of amateur video since the explosions, prompting senior executives to reassess internal guidelines governing use of unsolicited material.
Helen Boaden, BBC director of news, said: “No one knows where this is going to take us. The gap between the professional and non-professional news gatherers is getting narrower.”
That sentiment was echoed at Sky News, the TV news outlet for British Sky Broadcasting.
Simon Bucks, associate editor of Sky News, said: “This is probably the first big story in Britain where we have seen this effect, where camera phones allow eyewitnesses a method of recording news and getting it broadcast.”
Detecives hunting the bombers also made a special appeal to the public for any mobile phone images and video footage captured in London on the day of the bombings, especially from those near the site of the attacks. They urged members of the public with such images to email them to Scotland Yard at images@met.police.uk.
Sky News is offering contributors whose material is used the equivalent of a half-day freelance rate, or about £250 ($434, €364), for the copyright to photographic images.
The BBC, however, insists that images it receives are offered royalty-free with a non-exclusive licence to publish the material in any way it wants.
Use of witness images, many of them containing horrific scenes, could spark an internal media debate over the rules governing copyright and decency.
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FT.com / Terror / London blasts - Mobile phone images present dilemma for TV
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