How tech is changing campaign coverage

Interesting article from The New York Times on how technology is changing the way journalists cover campaigns:

"Campaign reporters, like war correspondents, are not necessarily gadget geeks. But the rapacious 24-hour news cycle has forced them onto the cutting edge to do their jobs better - or at least faster. The equipment is even altering the shape of the correspondent's day, which now includes scrolling in the morning through The Note, an online political briefing from ABC News, and checking one another's Web sites at night, trying all the while to get a jump on everyone else.

"The great leaps forward for print reporters in this campaign cycle are wireless laptops and digital tape recorders with software that allows them to download a candidate's speech immediately onto the laptops as an audio file. For television reporters, it is the ubiquitous hand-held minicam, which blurs the line between home video and politically revealing moments."

Jan 31, 2004 | E-MAIL | SAVE | PRINT | PERMALINK | DISCUSS(0)

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