The news industry reports on changes in the world, but it’s now undergoing huge changes itself thanks to telecommunications tools that are in the hands of everyday people.
Hear how public service broadcasters BBC and NHK are coping with the new paradigm of news.
Telecom Report - Journalism (8:30 min, Subtitled)
From both sides of the Atlantic, an informal survey of people on the street: why they contribute to the news, and more importantly, what tools they’re now using to do so.
Yes, it’s a news network and yes, it has a mobile network. It also has a fixed network and it uses the satellite network. How many networks can a network have? It’s a riddle that Turner Broadcasting System intends to solve by staying ahead of technology trends and determining how to best use the best network at the best time.
South Africans have been given their own news site. Reporter.co.za has several thousand “citizen reporters” on its team, making other press rooms look tiny in comparison.
No longer limiting invitations to journalists and analysts, companies have started to welcome bloggers to their events, giving them press passes and briefing them like any other members of the media.
Telecom Report is the first to report on 80108, a new mobile content service that went live in the US this week. The service provides subscribers with exclusive local news alerts via SMS.
