Filing from the court’s press bench
Posted by Andrew Grant-Adamson on November 18th, 2007
How the use of a fold up keyboard and a mobile phone to file copy from a courtroom — because the judge might consider a laptop too obtrusive — would go down in England I don’t know. But Ron Sylvester’s account of using technology to cover a murder case in Kansas is fascinating.
Pity then, that following a link to an example in his blog post there is a message saying the Wichita Eagle is unable to locate the page. In some ways the account is high tech and in others it is making the best of limited resources. For example, he uses a memory stick to get pictures from photographers and file them, which suggests they cannot use their own laptops to send.
What I like, is the sense of a reporter working out the best available way of getting his copy in as fast as possible. That I can really understand. And it will be a bit faster than the copy boys who used to pick up hand-written copy from Bristol magistrates’ court.
November 19th, 2007 at 12:23 pm
November 29th, 2007 at 2:02 pm