When news strikes, I go hunting for video. Just an old habit. I want to see for myself what it looked like. So after yesterday's 5.8 earthquake back on the East Coast I went to youtube, thinking that I might be able to see some rocking. No such luck. What was there were myriads of … Continue reading youtube nation…
Can you say "Citizen Journalist"? That phrase harkens back seven or eight years when everyone it seems wanted to become a journalist. It had its good and bad points and never really seemed to take off. Kind of floundered and dropped out of sight. Well, now someone has developed an app titled "Tapln" that encourages … Continue reading Citizen photographers app…
It's a funky time of year...kind of a blah time when you think deep dark thoughts about the meaning of life. Like: do journalists OWN the right to produce news? Oh no! Not that argument again! Well, yes, but with a difference. Every term I teach my students about the march of technology that made … Continue reading Sitting and stewing…
Credit: Kevin Hare/The Enquirer This just in from the Battle Creek Enquirer (Michigan): a 91 year old radio/television reporter is hanging up her mike. Thanks to tvspyfor the heads up. Harriet Henderson picked up her first job because she was a regular at city council meetings and a local television reporter asked her to cover … Continue reading Harriet Henderson hangs it up…
You-witness-news It's here - Yahoo, which caters to whatever will draw an audience, has created a citizen propelled news site which will take any video Joe Citizen with a camera wants to offer up, and at no cost whatever to him or Yahoo. I'm not really sure what to say - this is either one … Continue reading True eyewitness news: you-witness-news
Andy Dickinson has fresh insight into the Sadaam hanging video. As professionals, VJs observe and report on what goes on in the world from an objective viewpoint. But what happens when a citizen sees/records important events? Does that make them a videojournalist? In my experience, no - that makes them an eyewitness. The variable today … Continue reading “Citizen Journalist” vs. “Videojournalist” vs. Eyewitness
