BBC dot.life: ‘Hi-tech hacks’ in action
Rory Cellan-Jones reports back on some multimedia initiatives and journalists pioneering new technologies for newsgathering and reporting, in particular Damien Van Achter, who works for Belgian TV station RTBF.
“[H]is card describes him as community manager, editor developer and journalist. But his role seems to be to act as a kind of new media agent provocateur inside quite a traditional organisation, encouraging older broadcasters to try all the new tools that are now available.
“(…)His blog, ‘Blogging the News’, is where he brings a lot of his journalist experiments together but it seems most of it is his own rather than RTBF’s material – he’s really a backroom boy at the station rather than a mainstream correspondent. All the more interesting then that the US State Department, which had spotted his blog, contacted him before Hillary Clinton’s visit to Brussels and offered him exclusive access to the secretary of state during her tour.”
November 27th, 2009 at 9:48 am
[...] What? Works for Belgian broadcaster RTBF.be with a penchant for multimedia experimentation – see Rory Cellan-Jones’ recent article on Van Achter. [...]