People who drop litter in a London borough are being filmed by a council team and face £80 on-the-spot fines. The BBC reports.
Hackney Council has employed 11 environmental enforcement officers, each who has a mobile phone with a video camera to record offenders.
Fines will also be issued to those who do not clean up after their dogs.
The news is changing, as more ordinary people become citizen journalists, reports the Canadian Press.
Armed with cellphone cameras and Internet connections, they are taking pictures, shooting video and messaging eyewitness accounts of terrorist attacks, political rallies and natural disasters. They're making the unfiltered information available almost instantly, faster than traditional news organizations.
"I am no longer going to look at the news because it's something historical and something I want to see," said Leonard Brody, chief executive and co-founder of Vancouver-based NowPublic, which calls itself a "next-generation wire service."
In NowPublic.com's list of the Top 10 moments in user-generated news for 2008, the Mumbai attacks take the No. 1 spot.
The website also cited the role of SMS texting, blogging and the online photo management site Flickr in other news moments on the list.
Mainstream media organizations such as CNN and the BBC are among those using news material from citizens..
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