How online tools helped journalists report on Heathrow

Posted by Martin Stabe on 21 January 2008 at 06:00
Tags: Journalism

New online tools have changed the way journalists report stories like the Heathrow crash-landing, BBC technology correspondent Rory Cellan-Jones writes on the BBC’s dot.life blog.

Graphic artists used Google Earth for images of the approach to Heathrow, reporters used Google, Wikipedia and Youtube to find background on the story. Just a decade ago, Cellan-Jones notes, he would have had trawl the BBC Library’s collection of Jane’s Aircraft for even basic information.

Cellan-Jones also bought a flight simulator computer game and its Boeing 777 add-on and had a retired pilot guide him through the procedures of an emergency at 600 feet.

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randomactsofjournalism | 21 January 2008 at 11:07am

Very interesting indeed. News coverage has indeed adpated in far more and varied ways that we could have previously predicted, not only because of the savvy and receptive public in terms of technology. Was surprised at the lack of UGC in the newspapers…
hackademic.net — jo&hellip | 23 January 2008 at 9:54pm

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Quando l’aiuto che &hellip | 29 January 2008 at 3:30pm

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