Car or newsroom? Both
Posted by Evan Fell on November 6, 2007 at 3:21 PM
The Shelby Star of Cleveland County, North Carolina has created a car that acts as a mobile newsroom. Reporters use the car to follow local news as it occurs and can report live online.
The Star Car allows live reporting by connecting to the Internet anywhere in Cleveland County by creating a “wireless hot spot.”
The Star Car features:
- Online wireless capabilities through a cell phone connection.
- A camera mounted on it so that online viewers can see what reporters see.
- A GPS tracking system that allows online viewers watch where the car is going... “Not only can you watch the news as it happens, you can watch the Star Car as it's chasing the news that's happening,” reports the Star.
The Star Car is an innovative tool for newspapers. “With this project, we plan to break through the preconceived notions of what a newspaper can achieve,” says Jon Jimison, editor of the Star. “We in Ifra regard the Shelby Star as one of the most innovative newspapers in the world," says Randy Covington Director of the Ifra Newsplex. The Star Car shows the willingness of the newspaper to take risks to keep newspapers up to par with technology.
The Star Car features:
- Online wireless capabilities through a cell phone connection.
- A camera mounted on it so that online viewers can see what reporters see.
- A GPS tracking system that allows online viewers watch where the car is going... “Not only can you watch the news as it happens, you can watch the Star Car as it's chasing the news that's happening,” reports the Star.
The Star Car is an innovative tool for newspapers. “With this project, we plan to break through the preconceived notions of what a newspaper can achieve,” says Jon Jimison, editor of the Star. “We in Ifra regard the Shelby Star as one of the most innovative newspapers in the world," says Randy Covington Director of the Ifra Newsplex. The Star Car shows the willingness of the newspaper to take risks to keep newspapers up to par with technology.
Source: The Star through IFRA Executive News Service
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The sad thing about Hiltzik isn't that he was posting anonymously, but that he was using anonymous postings to pretend to be a third party agreeing with himself. That's just lame and pathetic. And that's the angle no one in the media is focusing on. If he's being picked on by his employer for posting anonymously, that's between him and the L.A. Times. But he was called out by Patterico not for posting anonymously, but for using those anonymous posts in a sleazy (some would say unethical) manner, with the clear intent to deceive his readers.
As Patterico wrote: "the evidence is overwhelming that he has used more than one pseudonym. Hiltzik and his pseudonymous selves have echoed each other's arguments, praised one another, and mocked each other's enemies. All the while, Hiltzik's readers have been unaware that (at a minimum) the acid-tongued 'Mikekoshi' . . . is in fact Hiltzik himself."
If you want more info on the Star's impressive efforts (including the car!), the Newspaper Association of America published an "Innovation in Action" case study on the newspaper in August 2007. Here's the link: http://www.growingaudience.com/downloads/innovationshelby07.pdf.