• Bills players react as lake effect snow buries Buffalo
• “This is not Syria, its not a grave”
• https://vine.co/v/MYd6ULIAvUD
• https://vine.co/v/OZpnKUZqBzp
A Global Study of UGC in TV and Online News Output
• UGC is used by news organizations daily; can produce stories that otherwise would not, or could not, be told.
• Often used when other imagery is not available.
A Global Study of UGC in TV and Online News Output
• 40% of UGC on television was related to Syria.
• 72 percent of UGC was not labeled as UGC and just 16 percent of UGC on TV had an onscreen credit.
Identify, verify original source and content
• Confirm the person behind the account.
• Examine her digital footprint.
Identify, verify original source and content
• Try to find other accounts associated with the same name/username in order to find more information.
Identify, verify original source and content
• Verify the date and approximate time, particularly when dealing with photos/videos.
• Does the file have EXIF metadata?
– http://regex.info/exif.cgi
Triangulate, challenge source
• Does anything look out of place?
• Do any of the source's details or answers to my questions not add up?
• Is there anything on Snopes related to this?
Triangulate, challenge source
• Ask the source direct questions and cross-reference answers to info you get through your own research.
• Reflect what you know from the EXIF data and/or geolocation information from tools like Google Street View and Google Maps.
Obtain permission
• In Alabama one must obtain the permission of the owner to redistribute.
• The clearest path: get permission and ask if you can work from their originals.
Obtain permission
• Be clear which file you want to use.
• Explain how it will be used.
• Clarify credit.
National Press Photographers Association-funded study
• Professional photographs were twice as likely to be shared.
• More time was spent, on average, with professionally generated photographs.
• People look first at faces.
National Press Photographers Association-funded study
• “Bad quality kind of crushes the credibility of a photo.”
• “It’s the people’s faces and their reactions.”
• “You can tell which ones are done by people who know what they are doing.”
References• Inspiration and more: verificationhandbook.com/book/
• Inspiration and more: http://citizenevidence.org/
• https://storify.com/reportedly/a-pocket-guide-to
• http://mashable.com/2014/04/09/millennials-user-generated-media/
• http://www.businessinsider.com/poll-millenials-have-historically-low-levels-of-trust-in-government-2014-4
• http://theweek.com/speedreads/456760/pics-didnt-happen-millennials-are-bunch-selfieloving-skeptics
• http://theweek.com/speedreads/454258/millennials-trust-media-less-than-congress-wall-street
• http://www.poynter.org/news/media-innovation/315887/instagrammers-discover-front-page-nyt-placement-by-chance/
• https://nppa.org/news/eyetracking-photojournalism-new-research-explores-what-makes-photograph-memorable-shareable-and