TV Station Moves to One-Person News Crews
source: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/12/11/AR2008121103976.html
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Under a new agreement reached this week with its labor unions, WUSA, Channel 9, will become the first station in Washington to replace its crews with one-person "multimedia journalists" who will shoot and edit news stories single-handedly.
The change will blur the distinctions between the station's reporters and its camera and production people. Reporters will soon be shooting and editing their own stories, and camera people will be doing the work of reporters, occasionally appearing on the air or on in video clips on Channel 9's Web site.
Sounds an awful lot like a mainstream media entity following the Current.Com model, doesn't it?
The change will blur the distinctions between the station's reporters and its camera and production people. Reporters will soon be shooting and editing their own stories, and camera people will be doing the work of reporters, occasionally appearing on the air or on in video clips on Channel 9's Web site.
Sounds an awful lot like a mainstream media entity following the Current.Com model, doesn't it?
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