The Future (?) of Journalism in the Age of Youtube
The amateur IS the journalist and the amateur is everywhere. All the time.
January 15th, 2009, a plane crash lands in the Hudson River. Less than ten minutes after the crash, a man named Janis Krums snaps a photo of the downed plane and uploads the photo to Twitpic. As the ferry boat heads to the crash site to pick up survivors, Krum’s photo becomes the defining photo of this event, running on the front page of newspapers around the world.
NAB 2009: TV Production in the Age of YouTube
What traditional broadcast journalists must learn from the film making vocabulary of YouTube.
iPhone + Cycorder= future of journalism?
Over the last few days I have come to re-affirm a deeply held belief: The end of the newspaper era is the beginning of decentralized news reporting, where ‘timeliness over quality’ is the rule of the day. I have always believed in the Media Singularity which is the ultimate outcome of increasingly cheaper technology combined [...]
A Fire Runs Through It.
A Fire Runs Through It., originally uploaded by ms4jah. As originally written by the Flickr photog: “(Taken on my Apple iphone, straight from phone cam, no computer enhancement, my Nikon D50 is broken. Location is Artesian Road in Rancho Santa fe; Highest position on explore was #2; this photo was also picked up by the [...]
