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In a big step in using user-generated video by a major newspaper, The New York Times is soliciting the public to upload videos of the California wildfires.  The notice just went up on the newspaper’s home page.

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Most of the television cable and network news organizations provide a mechanism for the public to upload video. CNN i Report is perhaps the most established.

The upload platform is Brightcove.

More details – and hopefully some citizen video to follow.

Above is a photo on the home page of The Times by Eric Thayer/Getty Images. Here is the most recent story

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— Andy Plesser