Would be really interesting to see what people think of the new, 'five news' website.
It launched on Monday, one of the first broadcasters to actually pay viewers for stories if they are used on the TV (BBC decided to follow suit yesterday!) . Plus there's a section for new and original content over in the features.
That's quite cool, that they would pay the viewers if they showed a news article they created. but, still £100 is a lot of money... they maybe should have done £20, but then again.... £100 would and could entice more people to do it.... what do you all think?
I think seen as it's a five new production - the graphics team would allready produced that backdrop for the site. It would have been created in the early stages of five news rebranding (when it switched from ITN to Sky)
MediaGuardian broke the news last week :
BBC to pay for viewers' pictures
Tara Conlan
Thursday November 16, 2006
MediaGuardian.co.uk
Buncefield: the BBC receieved 5,000 emails during the first few hours following the Buncefield oil depot fire last December. Photograph: AFP/Getty
The BBC is to pay viewers who send in user-generated content, but only for material that is "particularly editorially important or unique", MediaGuardian.co.uk can reveal.
New guidelines tell BBC staff they can make payments to members of the public who send in footage from mobile phones or cameras, but "audiences should not be encouraged to think that payment is the norm".
The new guidelines on paying for content are a departure for the BBC.
Just three weeks ago at the News Xchange conference in Istanbul, the News Interactive head, Pete Clifton, was asked if the BBC would pay for user-generated content.
"Not on the budget I've got," he said. "We don't expect to pay for it and I don't recall anyone asking for that. They retain the copyright and if they want to try and sell it elsewhere, they can."
The BBC is following in the footsteps of other broadcasters which have asked viewers to send in their own content.
Channel Five recently announced it would pay viewers £100 for contributions it used on air.
But the BBC is determined not to encourage viewers to think they will automatically be paid.
I think seen as it's a five new production - the graphics team would allready produced that backdrop for the site. It would have been created in the early stages of five news rebranding (when it switched from ITN to Sky)
If by "produced" you mean opening up tvnewsroom.co.uk and downloading a wallpaper... yea I suppose that's what they did. It's not the first time a wallpaper I've made has been used as the real thing, I remember one of mine being used on that ITV regional news site for a short time. I couldn't and wouldn't possibly have the right to care what they did with my mocks of their own graphics, but I'd have thought they would use their own graphics instead of my mock-ups!
Hmm, isn't the Sky News website meant to be getting a revamp soon? *Mocks a new Sky News wallpaper!*
it's a bit different though Lee. The swoosh is in a totally different place
They've adjusted it for the site of course, that is their swoosh, but you only have to put the images side by side to see that large parts of it are identical. *Whips out the microscope* My wallpaper isn't that close to the original graphics that it is just a
bit
different, I know the inaccuracies in my mock, they're not small and they are also there on the Five News site.
I know what I'm on about, leave me in my own little world!
