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Phillip Littleton of CNN used digital tools for a report in 2007.
A very interesting article I caught in the NYTimes yesterday. This story focuses on what it's like to be a "digital journalist" in the 21st Century.
~LT
By BRIAN STELTER
Published: August 12, 2008
CNN announced on Tuesday that it would assign journalists to 10 cities across the United States, a move that would double the number of domestic cities where the cable news network has outposts.
But in a reflection of the way television networks are reinventing the way they gather news, the journalists will not work from expensive bureaus — rather, they will borrow office space from local news organizations and use laptops to file articles for the Internet and TV. When news happens, they will use Internet connections and cellphone cameras to report live.
“We are harnessing technology that enables us to be anywhere and be live from anywhere,” said Nancy Lane, the senior vice president for news gathering for CNN/U.S., a unit of Time Warner. “It completely changes how we can report.”
CNN may be putting itself in the vanguard of this newfangled approach, but it is hardly alone.
Last year ABC stationed seven “digital journalists” in far-flung cities, including New Delhi, Jakarta, Dubai and Nairobi, to act as one-person bureaus. Traditionally, the networks were able to maintain well-staffed bureaus in many major cities. The offices, camera crews, reporters and other resources they wielded were not only central to their news gathering, but also symbolic of their journalistic dominance.
Today, as they confront new competition on the Web, television networks are increasingly embracing portable — and inexpensive — methods of production. Decades of budget cuts have forced the news divisions to reduce their global footprint, shutting bureaus and abandoning the old norm of four-person crews.
Full article link: www.nytimes.com
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