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AP Moves Forward with Social Media and User-Generated Content
The Associated Press has expanded its commitment to social media and user-generated content (UGC) as global newsgathering resources, promoting Fergus Bell to the newly created position of social media and UGC editor -- international.

"Fergus Bell has put the AP front and centre in our efforts to secure the copyright and forensically verify user-generated content, 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, AP deputy managing editor and head of the news agency's Nerve Center, in a memo to staff today.

With his international focus, Bell will remain based in London and report both to Fakahany and AP Television Head of Output Beth Colson while also working closely with overall Social Media Editor Eric Carvin in New York.

"I'm really excited to take on this new role and continue working to find new ways of telling stories through user-generated content, whether it be from difficult places we can't get to or allowing us to always find that one person who was in the right place at just the right time," Bell said.

Bell, a graduate in Broadcast Journalism from the University of Leeds, joined AP six years ago as a news assistant on the television news desk in London and worked his way up to senior producer. Since April 2011 he has focused on social media newsgathering, big set events, training and strategy. Besides the Arab Spring, he has used social media to aid the AP's newsgathering operations and source UGC for the shootings in Norway and the Japanese earthquake.

Website: www.ap.org
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