Why would NBC buy Stringwire?

Wen/Zhao Ziwen Citizen News has swept the globe, threatening to overthrow the traditional news media. NBC News has taken a step first, buying the news video Direct-hit website Stringwire (stringwire.com) and incorporating its users ' live direct hits into the news coverage. Phil Groman created the Stringwire Web site so that smartphone video can be shared in real time. Stringwire works by constantly searching for news-eyewitness Twitter messages, sending them Twitter messages, asking news witnesses to click on a link, inviting friends or strangers to participate in real-time chat, and using their mobile/ The flat-panel camera captures the news scene from multiple angles, and the two mix and cross. The New York Times commented that the service could seamlessly embed a lot of live video into the NBC News console and that NBC doesn't need any special applications. Vivian Schiller, chief digital officer at NBC News, believes Stringwire is the next-generation news-reporting model, saying in an interview with The New York Times: "Any hot news on Twitter will have stringwire witnesses." As with any other NBC News material, the material will be sent to the audit first, perhaps to enhance the authenticity and accuracy of the news report. "As a result, NBC can seamlessly embed eyewitness video material directly from mobile devices into the news console, which is also a trend for future news reports." There are many examples to show that this kind of civic journalism has a lower credibility. And the news must report the facts. The American press is now pulling out of the news division in many non-native countries, partly to save money, and partly to secure it, especially to countries or places where conflict is prone. At this time, the local people can be timely, convenient, relatively safe to report the big events in the area. There is also the fact that American news organizations do not need to be held accountable to journalists who are not their own company, such as the huge amount of compensation paid for a public injury. Although the credibility is low, but still cannot prevent citizen news to become the public focus, especially after the Boston Marathon bombing, Reuters financial blog Celebrity Felix Salmon in Post described "The incident, shows how well-trained reporters and editors are in their own way, Tell which news is real and reliable in the mass of information and report it quickly. "It would be a huge boost for both citizen news and traditional media if the NBC buy the Stringwire card is right." But it also faces challenges, as well-trained professional editors and journalists get a lot of real-time coverage of the news, but also to ensure that these are accurate and true. NBC is not the first news agency to collaborate with the user-hit site. This June, the Associated Press purchased a portion of the Bambuser website, Bambuser video based on mobile devicesService Web site helps to mobilize citizen journalists because it aims to "strengthen" its live video news and eyewitness reports. PS: "Citizen News" is also known as "Grassroots News", which refers specifically to people who have not had sufficient opportunity to participate in the media professional operation of the news reports.