CBC Turns to What It Calls Civic Journalism
Canadian Broadcast Corporation announces:
CBC Television will cancel the Canada Now early evening national newscast next February and move to one-hour regional newscasts at 6 p.m. across the country.
Relying on what it defines as civic journalism:
“CBC will redefine its relationship with its audience,” said Tony Burman, editor-in-chief of CBC News.
“We want to further the local voice that we already hear on our local programs.”
The initiative called myCBC will be piloted in Vancouver. Here’s more:
Vancouver will also be the first CBC news bureau to pioneer “civic journalism,” in which citizens can upload video or images of news events to the CBC.
…the BBC and CNN have already begun to experiment with this form of citizen journalism. The BBC, for example, used images forwarded by cellphone users to broadcast up-to-the-minute information of what was happening in parts of London during last year’s bombings.
So, the question is, and we will try to find the answer, do they really mean civic journalism or do they mean citizen journalism?
