BBC launching user-generated TV show

BBC News 24 is launching a new TV program based entirely on user-generated content, called "Your News, " reports Cyberjournalist.net. "The program will include:

-- Your Story– weekly news report unique to Your News covering an issue raised by a member of the public.

-- Your Questions – Your News reporter Laura Jones sets out to investigate answers to the questions sent in to the BBC by the public on issues, local or national, that concern them;

-- Your Pictures – images sent into the BBC from the public with their view of the world;

-- Your Top Stories – that week's top stories on the BBC News website and elsewhere.

All material will be credited on-air to the member of the public who sent it in.

Other recent BBC user generated content projects:

BBC to pay for viewers' pictures - The BBC is to pay viewers who send in user-generated content, but only for material that is "particularly editorially important or unique"

BBC Trials Video Messaging for Football - The trial allows football fans to send in 3G video messages with their opinions on the crucial England internationals and during Football Focus broadcasts.

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