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Article: Is `New Media' Really New?
- Article from:
- Nieman Reports
- Article date:
- September 22, 1999
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For news agency reporters, technology changes but not how the job is done.
I'm soaking in the tub at my home in Santiago, Chile, when my wife hands me the portable phone. It's the broadcast desk of the Associated Press calling, wanting some Q-and-A for radio. I wonder if the echo from the yellow wall tiles and glass shower door is noticeable and will spoil my report, but I decide to stay put. I need to clean up and, just as much, I need the rest.
"Testing. Testing. Does this sound OK?" I ask the producer. He's sitting in a recording booth in Washington, D.C. I don't tell him exactly where I am. I just try not to slosh around too much.
"Just ...