Evening Telegraph's Final Week
08 August 2011 by Paul Rhoades
It's interesting to observe the local paper's more direct move into the social media and citizen journalism arena as the final week of the "daily" print run starts.
Despite a damning piece by the telegraph mocking the local B Division Community police sergeant for using twitter in April, and the ridicule of social networking in the target's "Simon Says" column on the 30th June, it would appear that bosses at the telegraph have caught up with the rest of us and have made further changes to their website to better source social media stories.
Visit Scunthorpe regular Hamst pointed out at the weekend that the Evening telegraph have added a new "trusted source" rosette against each of their own articles.
I had a quick look at the ET site today and noticed that there in adition to the "Trusted Source" rosette, there is also a new "Our Users View" avatar for "reader contribution", which would suggest that these stories are not provided by staff of Northcliff News.
This is however not the case. The first story I have seen this "Users's View" icon used on is this:
Provided by Mr Brigg, who seems to run the web site www.BriggPeople.co.uk, which is interestingly also owned by Northcliff.
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