This isn’t “hot news,” but I’m posting this as much for myself to think about as anything. “Seeking Alpha” has published an article that’s bullish about the business opportunities for a television graphics company, Chyron, and the company provides camera phone products for newsrooms.
The brief item about Chyron that caught my eye notes, “Other initiatives include WAPSTR [see below], a system of integrating user content flawlessly and immediately into newscasts. Anyone with a camera phone can send and image directly to a local TV station by phone, and within seconds the station can have the image on air as breaking news.”
I’ve written before in this weblog and, more frequently, in my mobile TV weblog, about the revolutionary aspects of camera phones for journalism. The future of news is not just journalists transmitting camera phone images and videos, but also — more revolutionary — consumers being able to transmit streaming video live from camera phones.
I discuss this in greater detail in one of my weekly CMP Publications columns, “The Serendipitous Broadcaster Revolution.”
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