Hi: I'm Doreen Marchionni (Ph.D. '09, Missouri School of Journalism). I'll be your intergalactic pilot on this journey through my dissertation. Send whiskey, please.
Bravo to Wall Street Journal for taking video feeds seriously enough to give them a special stream. But the paper may be missing a huge opportunity by limiting video to that only from Journal staffers/editors. The paper argues it wants only high-quality, carefully vetted material. I can’t support that enough. But why not deploy those editors/vetters to work with everyday citizens to raise the standards where needed, making journalism more like a collaboration with them rather than a lecture?
If there is anything that distinguishes post-9/11 news, it is the breathtaking, iconic feeds of photos and videos from everyday people at scenes of historic events, from 9/11 and the London train bombs to the Hudson River plane crash and Arab Spring uprisings. To not let these phone-toting armies participate is just silly and myopic.
