Virginia Tech Shooting Covered by CNN Using Blip.tv enabled I-Report

April 16th, 2007 · 2 Comments

I just found out about the Virginia Tech shooting story and I went to the CNN site to find out more. I saw there a link to an I-Report, a feature the CNN has which lets regular people upload video. In this case, someone on the scene captured some of the disturbing action on his mobile phone’s video camera. iReport is powered by Blip.tv, the service I use to share my videos. This is a powerful proof of concept for I-Report, an example of big media teaming up with citizens to bring better coverage to a mass audience. This is the kind of story that CNN was made for—dramatic, breaking news. Now it’s got a bigger pool of potential correspondents. Us.

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CNN’s I-report posts cell phone video of VA shooting at eric rochow // Apr 16, 2007 at 5:24 pm

[…] I had talked about this in an earlier post, of how cell phone video cameras would come into play as an imediate source of breaking news, and now we see it happening with the shooting in Virginia. CNN’s I-report, which is powered by Blip.tv, has posted a cell phone video from the VA campus. From Johnny Goldstein […]
Jamal Albarghouti Spotlights the Role of Citizen Journalists in VA Tech Massacre | Verge New Media // Apr 19, 2007 at 1:27 pm

[…] New Tee Vee has a useful post on Albarghouti, with links for further discussion. Jonny Goldstein points out the value of big media teaming up with citizen media makers on his blog. […]

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