Reynolds Fellow Jane Stevens on how hyperlocals should handle user-generated content

Source Street Fight on June 21, 2012 0 Comments
Jane Stevens, wellcommons, social journalism, RJI, Reynolds Journalism Institute
"How Hyperlocals Should Handle User-Generated Content," Street Fight, June 21, 2012.

The best engagement for a hyperlocal site is when its audience becomes a cornucopia of user-generated content. But how do sites make that happen?

There was a recent media kerfuffle when the Nashville Tennessean ran two un-bylined articles produced by publicists at the Vanderbilt University Medical Center. Was that a no-no? We asked Jane Stevens, who led creation of the community-driven WellCommons health site at the Lawrence Journal World, to explain what works and what doesn’t when sites, as they should, turn to their audience for articles and other content.

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