CNN’s missed opportunity with Bin Laden tape
September 19th, 2007Posted by Laura Oliver in Online Journalism
When CNN lost out to Reuters on new video footage of Osama Bin Laden, CNN revealed the reason why: their contract with the news provider had been ended a week before.
But it would seem someone missed a trick, as the European web trawler who found the Bin Laden footage tried to submit it to CNN via their I-Report feature, which asks users to submit their own video news stories.
Despite contacting the cable channel through their website – the only available method being web e-mail forms – the video’s seller never received a response.
He even posted it to Twitter before trying to sell it on.
It begs the question of how many other exclusives have been lost through a lack of web-savvyness?
There’s more on this at Inside Cable News.
