Someday Brian Williams and Katie Couric may be the ones we get our news from â€"in Second Life. That's not far fetched, considering how SL is attracting all media organizations.
But it's also possible that Journalism schools could get into the act too, and (Professor) Larry King could be conducting journalism training in SL. I'm not making this up. There was a move last month by CNN where it said it was setting up a virtual bureau in SL, with its eyes on a citizen journalism. The bureau was supposed to begin operatiing last week.
In related news, Dan Gilmore, the authority on the topic of citizen journalism, is joining Arizona State University's Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication. Gilmor has not commented much on this move, but I know it's going to be a big leap for citizen journalism, and add a lot of exciting dimensions to the Cronkite School.
The above picture is from CNN's iReport via one of its citizen journalists.
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