Prague, Futuroom, and the new hyper-local news hybrid.
If you’re new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Thanks for visiting!I’ve thought for quite some time that print journalism had no future. In the beginning, I thought that all a newspaper had to do to save itself was to embrace multimedia and video. However, after being a proponent of this [...]
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.
