“User-generated content and verification are no longer a side operation,” said BBC Social Media Editor Chris Hamilton. “They have become part of the journalistic toolbox, alongside agency pictures, field reporters, background interviews. It’s critical for any big newsroom that wants credibility in storytelling.”

Check out how, concretely (and empirically!), forensic verification processes have become a strategy to bolster journalism in a sea of information:

• David Turner at Neiman Report on BBC UGC Hub
• Alex Murray at BBC Academy - College of Journalism blog on verification tactics
• Advices from journalism.co.uk (and here) more on Columbia Journalism Review here!

Check out this interesting panel on overcoming censorship with social media at the BBC. 

Last Friday, more than 500 academics, journalists, managers and consultants attempted to take another look at the role of media today at the 2^nd POLIS Journalism Conference at the London School of Economics (LSE). The panelists and participants aimed to answer the following questions: “who holds the media power,” “who are and where are the new watchdogs,” “what do we need to know about this new information society?” By asking these questions, the panelists and conference organizers cemented the idea that journalism has gone beyond citizen-journalism and that it is now time for a new media configuration to be acknowledged.

Read the rest of my review in the Online Journalism Review here.