Michael Critiques Video, Growth of Mobile Journalism, Citizen Videos Show us the World

Michael has less than favorable reviews for one reporter's attempt at video journalism, Are journalists taking full advantage of the technologies available for their industry? Eyewitness citizen videos are given their own platform

And This Piece of Crap Is In The Washington Post!!! posted on August 17th 2010

Michael critiques a recent Washington Post video, "If a reporter turned in a piece of crap scribbled on a torn paper with a crayon, they would have been told that this is a newspaper, not a kindergarten. The same standards have to apply to video. This...is crayons on torn paper."

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Field Guides: Mobile Journalism posted by Erica Zucco

Erica Zucco experiments with a new VeriCorder iphone application and takes a look at the history of mobile journalism. Zucco shows how today's smartphone and application technology are giving journalists never before seen opportunities and yet most of them are just not using them as much as they should.

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Eyewitness Videos brought to you by CitizenTube

CitizenTube is a feed of the news videos that have been uploaded to the YouTube site. While not professionally filmed, the videos do provide interesting eyewitness accounts of events around the world. One video in today's news, posted by YouTube user melaphoria, was filmed right outside the YouTube user’s home window. It shows pedestrians heroically rescue a driver in a burning Model A Ford.

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