Citizen journalism TV show launches

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Endemol, the developer of Big Brother, has this week started to produce daily user-generated TV news shows.

The daily half-hour programmes - called IK OP TV (Me on TV) - debuted this week on seven regional TV channels in Holland.

Endemol is working in partnership with Dutch citizen journalism service Skoeps on the project.

The Dutch-language shows ask viewers to send in their own reports from which they make local news TV items.

Citizen reporters can upload their news videos on to the Skoeps.nl website, as well as uploading content via the show's site .

Videos are then screened before being placed on the sites and selected for the presenter-led TV show.

"The regional channels, like all news agencies, have reporting guidelines. We also have similar guidelines, so there is some level of training," a spokesperson for Endemol told Journalism.co.uk.

"We tell them [citizen reporters] how to report, the dos and don'ts, to make sure they don't get in the way of emergency personnel, for example. We have told them that in some situations they need to keep a certain distance, if not the will be blocked from IK OP TV."

The programme has already enlisted 150 citizen journalists, who work unpaid but have been given a suitable mobile device with which to capture stories. It hopes to have around 300 contributors across the Netherlands in the next few weeks.