One way of describing what we’re doing with Manchester Community Reporters is ‘citizen journalism’. This term is being used a lot in the media these days, to mean the general public contributing to news programmes. This often takes the form of mobile phone clips, from events that journalists haven’t arrived at yet. A famous example is footage of people walking out of the tunnel after one of the London tube bombs - taken by a passenger and used on BBC news.

Now Sky and ITN are talking to mobile network 3 about setting up a ‘channel’ for these clips, that can be used in news bulletins.

Read the full story from the Guardian:

Mobile group in talks to create TV link for citizen journalists