So The Bee is streaming live video these days
Tuesday, I went out to the downtown post office to video last-minute tax-return filers. Yesterday, I was at Roosevelt High school after a shooting was reported.
As you may have heard, a school resource officer shot and killed a Roosevelt High student yesterday after the student struck him in the head with a baseball bat. Fresno Police Chief Jerry Dyer described the incident as "very tragic."
I was assigned to take out the new Nokia N95 phone, which has the capability to stream live video online via Qik.com, and share live what happened afterward. So, when Dyer spoke at a press conference outside the school, we brought that to our audience as it happened.
There's no editing involved. I logged about half a dozen videos, which included students being released and Bee reporters interviewing people on the street. I'm not sure all of these videos hold up. But I think we may have stumbled upon a compelling way to do breaking news video on the Web.
UPDATE: There was another press conference today at 11 a.m. (see video after jump).
It worked pretty well ... I was able to get close enough to get usable audio. Granted, the image quality isn't great (but I'm sure there'll be HD on these little cell phones in a year). If you watched it live, there was a delay about halfway through the 26 minutes that we were able to stream. So, sorry about that. We're still working out the kinks.
Comments:
Will,
I would like to sign in on your discussion about this new-fangled techno-tronic reporting.
It was interesting to watch this story unfold and see how the various news sources delivered their material, and there is some merit to showing unedited raw footage of something as is happens, then being able to give more in-depth story as information becomes available. I liked the having the feeling that I was there (as opposed to being told, or shown, what was there).
There is, of course, the danger of falling into the "we got it out first" mentality, which can produce bad information, and that may have happened with this shooting, though not The Bee in particular, I think. But overall, this might be a good way for newspapers to bridge the gap between the big news and the next day's paper.
More interesting to me though was the live chat that you guys had running at time, and seeing how people responded on various forums.
Posted by: Famous at April 17, 2008 4:02 PM
Doesnt these schools have security cameras? Why isnt anyone asking about those footage?
Posted by: john at April 21, 2008 2:05 PM
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