AP Names First Social Media, User Generated Content Editor
The Associated Press has named Fergus Bell its international social media and UGC (user generated content) editor, a new position at the company. Bell has been with the AP since 2006, most recently serving as senior producer, with a focus on social media.
“Fergus Bell has put the AP front and center in our efforts to secure the copyright and forensically verify user-generated content (UGC), which has become a focal newsgathering resource for the AP and took on a sharpened urgency as the Arab Spring swept the region last year and into this one,” said Tamer Fakahany, the AP’s deputy managing editor, in a memo.
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