This App Will Pay Anyone to Shoot News Videos (HBO)
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- Опубліковано 4 лип 2017
- Fresco is a lot like Uber. It’s an app built for an on-demand service based on location. But unlike similar apps where you request a car, takeout, or a even a dog walker, Fresco puts a call out for a photojournalist. A newsroom posts a request for video of, say, a crime scene, and a Fresco user in the area can accept, take a video of it, and upload it to Fresco. If the news outlet uses it, the Fresco user gets paid $50. That seems like quite a bargain compared to the hundreds or thousands of dollars a professional journalist would earn. But Fresco raises many ethical questions -- among them, do you get what you pay for?
TV news stations across the country are using the app, but Fresco is particularly appealing to KTBY, a station in Anchorage, Alaska. Alaska is a big state, and many of KTBY's viewers live in remote villages that are hours away by plane. It's hard to cover those communities without spending a ton of money and time. In a Fresco promotional video, Scott Centers, COO of Coastal Television Broadcasting Company, which owns KTBY, marvels that Fresco offers an affordable alternative. "So if you take a reporter's salary and then you add in the cost of vehicles, using Fresco we were able to cut that cost. And so what was once a $3,000 average cost, now comes down to less than $200," Centers laughs.
But outsourcing news gathering to amateurs also comes with a cost. Fresco's users are largely not trained in news gathering or journalistic ethics. Vice News spoke to multiple Fresco users, one of whom said she was hesitant when KTBY asked her to interview a politician about public policy.
Weirdly, Fresco's promo about KTBY provides its own lesson in journalistic standards. It's titled "Fresco Fully Powers Local TV News Station." The description says, "Announcing the first television news station to be fully powered by citizen journalism." Fresco CEO John Meyer says KTBY signed off on a press release making this claim. Yet KTBY's news director, Mark Colavecchio, told Vice News, That was something that Fresco came up with, because we're not fully powered by Fresco."
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I am going to go full nightcrawler on this.
great movie
Awesome movie
Fuckin right there with ya. Getting the ultimate shots
random vidz so hows that night crawling going?
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Sounds like the news found a cheap way to get footage!!
Yes I think this is the take-home message. It would lower their overhead costs but an 'independent journalist' who can livestream, film, and report, has way lower overheads. The only difference is the brand image (and size)
Difference between a professional and an amateur, nothing but experience. You can learn anything you want to, the internet is the college of today.
Who else is reminded of the Black Mirror episode with everyone mindlessly recording and filming what's going on around them?
The second I read The title... People don't understand how bad of an idea this is.
episode had a different premise, but yes, similar
bill52600 is it different or similar. make up your mind.
JStrauD | Tech & Gaming That's exactly what I was thinking while watching this.
JStrauD | Tech & Gaming doesn't that happen with Snapchat?
Dont do drugs kids.
all we need now is a sort of satellite live-stream news coverage device on the spot. Like a sort of go-pro/smart phone, but it's mostly a camera. Or a drone like camera man that follow you every where, like Mass Effect reporter. One-man reporting crew. cool
Pretty ironic, Vice doing a story on the potential quality loss in news reporting...
Privatize the gains, socialize the costs. Never fails.
i can't wait till fresco replaces this host at vice
Not sure how this idea fits into our steady descent into idiocracy but, still, interesting. Fifty bucks doesn't sound like a lot, though.
I feel like this is a cop-out for News Stations. If they're just using it for b-roll; to get different more shots and angles, sure. But they should probably also be there covering the story, not just talking over the clips. However, I understand that this is a more convenient way to cover weather segments, especially if the weather is very dangerous to send a crew out for.
The Alaska news anchor needs a Mynthon.
staging news never been easier?
could the vice journalist have been more bored looking? mehhhhhhh.
Good grief.... those glasses.
Can't wait to see diy journalists capturing footage on iPads 😑
1:51 Lord Varys is that you? (game of thrones)
nightcrawlers in the house lets get the best footage
Shift footage, shift responsibility, shift less $$$ though
This whole fucking time I could have been paid for my doc photography?!?!?
The reporter for vice appears stoned. Maybe it's just the way she looks.
This Journalists glasses.... She doesn't try so hard.
Holy shit!! time to go and Nightcrawl!
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If people only sent footage of what was happening with no commentary, I would be fine with that. But asking people not trained in journalistic integrity to interview people is a really bad idea. You would only get very biased reporting.
Worldstar!!!!
The vice chicks voice is putting her face to sleep
About to make some money
Companies who care more about profits than ethics will always make more money in this country.
What happens when the videos get faked or people just trying to make money on stuff that's not even real . SMH
LMAO!!! OBVIOUSLY....THEY are NO LONGER AROUND....FRESCO RIP....
Too important to screw around with the future of journalism? Really? Then tell me who already screwed this profession repute? Where is credibility and public trust in journalism? Is it because of Fresco?!
This is cool... i guess
BAKE news
shoot video, and they will create a content :D
they took your jobs
$50 for every video? Lol get the hell out of here😂
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Wtf watches TV?
Tony Toronto i do
This app is a thing of the past, nothing works in it. Don’t waste your time
This is disturbing
Blahcub That was just the ominous music. -A
Blahcub
How so?
how?
Random people aren't taught or even told to abide by journalistic integrity. Let's say a black lives matter protest goes out of hand. It's up to random, mostly biased people to then report and record the information. Depending on what your perspective is on the BLM movement you can see how this can be a problem. I'd trust well paid journalists to report this information, as they better understand how to leave out bias and are held up to journalistic integrity. When journalists report false or misleading information, they can get grilled and be forced to resign. With seemingly anonymous sources now reporting news, they're not accountable for misleading information.
All my points are amplified when dealing with interviewing political figures. Journalists are fact checkers and are supposed to hold feet to fire under any issue, grilling the politician. When CNN conducts interviews with Trump assailants CNN doesn't go easy on them. However when a biased source such as Fox News interviews Trump, for instance, when Trump came out and lied about having tapes of Comey. Fox News didn't ask if that was witness tampering, any worrisome follow up, they just merely congratulated Trump.
TLDR; Journalistic integrity is nonexistent and can lead to the code of ethics easily being broken when reporting stories. Mostly, stories that may have had previously been slightly biased are open season to be easily altered with smaller repercussions than before.
Sorry if this reads as a sloppy mess, makes sense to me.
See I think you have it backwards. Networks like CNN intentionally LIE to the American public to advance a liberal ideology. They want to control the information, but they can't.
So THAT'S how CNN does their job!
first
this is actually awfull. it devalues the knowledge and ability of using a camera. most of the footage there looked awful. but from what i have seen most us news footage looks awfull compared to UK.
who knows the name of the vice reporter? she is famous or what