Comments on: Breaking news? Break out the blog! http://simondickson.wordpress.com/2007/04/16/breaking-news-break-out-the-blog/ The former home of Simon's blog on news, politics and e-government. Now at puffbox.com. Tue, 29 Apr 2008 06:28:40 +0000 http://wordpress.com/ hourly 1 By: Martin Stabe » links for 2007-04-17 http://simondickson.wordpress.com/2007/04/16/breaking-news-break-out-the-blog/#comment-6266 Martin Stabe » links for 2007-04-17 Tue, 17 Apr 2007 12:23:49 +0000 http://simondickson.wordpress.com/2007/04/16/breaking-news-break-out-the-blog/#comment-6266 [...] Simon Dickson: Breaking news? Break out the blog! “Dan Gillmor points to the ‘blog-style’ coverage of today’s Virginia Tech shootings in the local Roanoke Times, saying ‘It’s the right format for this kind of event.’” News outlets should have a spare blog ready to launch for cases like this. (tags: viginiatech blogs journalism roanoketimes) [...] [...] Simon Dickson: Breaking news? Break out the blog! “Dan Gillmor points to the ‘blog-style’ coverage of today’s Virginia Tech shootings in the local Roanoke Times, saying ‘It’s the right format for this kind of event.’” News outlets should have a spare blog ready to launch for cases like this. (tags: viginiatech blogs journalism roanoketimes) [...]

]]> By: Simon http://simondickson.wordpress.com/2007/04/16/breaking-news-break-out-the-blog/#comment-6264 Simon Tue, 17 Apr 2007 09:02:13 +0000 http://simondickson.wordpress.com/2007/04/16/breaking-news-break-out-the-blog/#comment-6264 It interesting that as I watched the BBC report the breaking news it was doing its usual trick of asking for people to send in their views or images if they were there. Yet, reading Robin Hamman's blog last night it is clear that live text and video content was available but that the students behind it didn't need to rely on using the BBC as a conduit to the public, they were able to post it themselves and become the media - citizen journalism at its best. It interesting that as I watched the BBC report the breaking news it was doing its usual trick of asking for people to send in their views or images if they were there.

Yet, reading Robin Hamman’s blog last night it is clear that live text and video content was available but that the students behind it didn’t need to rely on using the BBC as a conduit to the public, they were able to post it themselves and become the media – citizen journalism at its best.

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