Design and implementation of UGC-oriented news gathering system server-side for emergencies

With the rapid development of mobile Internet technology, mobile phones and other mobile terminal products have been widely popular. General public who are not the professional journalist produce more and more pictures, video and other media content anywhere and anytime so that the user-generated content plays an more important role in the news reporting, especially in emergencies. As not having a collection channel of user-generated content, the traditional news gathering system has been proved that when it comes to emergencies it faces two challenging: bad timeliness and lack of first hand materials. In order to improve the timeliness and make full use of the user-generated content for emergencies, this paper presents an efficient and flexible news gathering system which is UGC-oriented. The new system includes two major parts - the client application in mobile devices and the management system in the server. Our work is focused on the server side to increase the gathering efficiency of UGC content. The results indicate it works well.