Live blogging from the courtroom

News sites have been increasingly using Weblogs to cover breaking and ongoing news stories and the trial of John Allen Muhammad in Virginia Beach, Va. is only the latest example. Gazette reporter David Abrams is doing a fine job posting to a Weblog a few times each day -- but Kerry Sipe, online news coordinator for The Virginian-Pilot, has taken the concept to a new level. He's using wireless technology to file minute-by-minute Weblog updates on the court proceedings, something no other reporter in no other medium is doing because cameras are not allowed in the courtroom. The reporting reads like a court transcript -- except it's posted in real time! This is a perfect use of the Internet and the Weblog format to deliver the news to readers more efficiently.

Sipe told The Associated Press he's posting live to the Weblog, with editors in the newspaper's office reading the postings after they are live. He said The Virginian-Pilot decided an editor would slow the process down. "There are some people looking over my shoulder who occasionally e-mail me to tell me if I misspell a word," he said.

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"He's using wireless technology to file minute-by-minute Weblog updates on the court proceedings, something no other reporter in no other medium is doing because cameras are not allowed in the courtroom."

What do cameras have to do with things?

Posted by James Drogan at October 18, 2003 8:41 AM

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