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Chicago White Sox vice-president and chief marketing officer Brooks Boyer was informative, insightful and entertaining during his lecture at Saint Xavier University on Dec. 16. He was no match…
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Brittany Frandsen, a 20-year-old film student at Columbia College Chicago, is on her way to the Sundance Film Festival in Park City, Utah, but not because of a film. It was her environmentally…
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Public Radio Reporter Uses Live Chats to Cover Breaking News Posted by Al Tompkins at 12:01 AM on Dec. 21, 2009 The National Transportation Safety Board recently released a cache of documents from its investigation into why some Northwest airline pilots strayed 100 miles off course. If you had gone to Minnesota Public Radio’s News Cut Web site, you would have seen Minnesota Public Radio’s Bob Collins pore over NTSB documents while chatting live with an online audience. Collins posted his comments in a chat via CoverItLive, a service that lets you interact online with readers who can comment or ask questions. Collins has used this technique before on breaking news stories. It is part crowd sourcing (using the general public to do research or other work) and part live coverage — but with a twist.
Barbara K Iverson
Barbara K Iverson 