Post from the sick bed
The blog has been lagging, as I’ve been dragging with the
flu now for several days. But I’ve
pulled myself out from under the weather to post links to a couple of articles
that caught my attention in my medicated haze.
First is from the New York Times on so-called “off-air
reporters” shooting video and blogging with the presidential campaigns. Itt points to why every reporter should carry a
point-and-shoot video camera and know how to use it.
The other is blogger Robert Patterson’s two-part series on how an NPR station in San Diego used Google Maps and Twitter to cover the
California fire last year. Patterson
also uses this example to explain how campus newsrooms could cover breaking
news, like a campus shooting, to alert students and even help
keep them safe. (Via Amy Gahran on
Poynter’s E-Media Tidbits)
Enjoy the reads. I’m
crawling back under the covers, drinking more juice and hope to emerge in a
few days.