News Xchange: who pays for UGC footage

By Jemima Kiss, Guardian

The BBC's deliciously titled 'user-generated content hub' employs six people to check content and distribute it "as widely as they can" throughout the organisation. Pete Clifton, head of BBC News Interactive, said the team does verify pictures by looking at them in Photoshop "but the best thing to do is to fire questions at people".

Read more...