Yesterday I posted my reaction to Gannett’s use of MoJos in Ft. Myers, Florida. Today Bryan Murley and Mark Hamilton have their own roundups of reactions.
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People in newsrooms have a simple choice to make: Will the new technologies be used to dumb down the news or to smarten it up. The choice taken will be based on the preconceived notions of the people in those newsrooms–and in part by the cost cutters.
Yesterday I got miffed at Jane Kirtley who was [...]
Washington Post chronicles activities of a MoJo, a mobile journalist, at Gannett’s Ft. Myers, Florida newspaper. He works out of his car with no office, no cubicle. He is one of 14 MoJos at the paper, soon to be joined by 16 more.
Look, I love the fact that the reporters get out of the office. [...]
The New York Times runs story entitled: Have Camera Phone? Yahoo and Reuters Want You to Work for Their News Service.
Story reports:
Starting tomorrow, the photos and videos submitted will be placed throughout Reuters.com and Yahoo News, the most popular news Web site in the United States, according to comScore MediaMetrix. Reuters said that it would [...]
The New York Times Sunday Magazine has an interesting story about how blogs and wikis are slowly being introduced into the US intelligence community. I like this part the best:
Dale Meyerrose, the chief information officer for the office of the director of national intelligence, and:
his staff decided to create a test blog to collect intelligence. [...]
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Leonard Witt is the Robert D. Fowler Distinguished Chair in Communication at Kennesaw State University and the chief blogger of PJNet. His academic interests include public and citizen journalism and how to get citizens' voices heard. He has spent most of his professional career as an award-winning journalist.