After weeks of rumour and rumblings at 111 Buckingham Palace Road, the Telegraph Media Group has finally launched My Telegraph, the latest a

Why do many journalists condemn User Generated Content (UGC) as totally useless and poor without realising that they often produce something worse? Journalists tend to think that UGC is complacent, unprofessional and it lacks objectivity. At the same time, they foster their own version of UGC: Journalist Generated Content. Let's call it JGC. It is full of complacency and ignorance, too. Moreover, it is a form of self-delusion.

At the recent British Press Awards 2007, the editor of a British national daily newspaper was heard to say ‘I’ve never met anyone who listens to f**king podcasts

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The editor of the Guardian editor, Alan Rusbridger, last week told a media conference that in future more and more of the content of newspapers like the Guardian will be provided by the readers themselves.User-generated content, he said, will "compliment" journalists' work.I love YouTube etc and I see the logic of what Rusbridger is saying. But I just don't understand how it is going to work for established media organizations like The Guardian.