UK news group recruits 1,000 citizen journalists

Trinity Mirror’s Teesside Evening Gazette is recruiting 1,000 citizen journalists over the next 12 months to boost content on its network of hyperlocal news sites, according to journalism.co.uk:

The postcode-based community websites, which were rolled out from January last year as ‘cousins’ to the paper’s Gazette Live website, feature content written and posted directly by a combination of non-journalists and the Gazette’s editorial team.

While the 22 sites currently have around 400 registered contributors, the paper is planning to recruit a host of new bloggers and community correspondents, Darren Thwaites, editor of the Evening Gazette, told today’s Regional Media Research Forum’s Insight Day.