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CNN in Second Life

Found this link from MediaWeek via PJ Net:

As news organizations slash budgets and scale back bureaus, CNN is expanding—except not in real life. 

In the week of Nov. 5, the news giant is set to open a news-gathering outpost in Second Life. And unlike news service Reuters, which embedded a real reporter in the online virtual world last year, CNN will rely on Second Life “residents” to do all the legwork.

And the network will act as a sort of journalism school, offering guidance to avatar citizen journalists via weekly “news meetings” directed by CNN.com staffers. 

This will be interesting to follow….

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2 Responses to “CNN in Second Life”

  1. chris Says:
    November 1st, 2007 at 11:43 am

    Are you in SL? I’m finding it …. interesting!

  2. Anne Davis Says:
    November 2nd, 2007 at 7:17 am

    Chris,
    No, I am not in SL - just not time to give to that now. I have been following your ventures though. Maybe you can show me around a bit later.I am buried in the research and I am learning so much plowing through all of it. I hope to blog about some of this soon.

    Meanwhile travel over to the student blogs at my previous school at http://jhh.blogs.com/webwriters/
    The classroom teacher is blogging with 3 classes. She is the classroom teacher I worked with last year on the blogging project. They are making some creative use of your pictures - I’ve added more of your pictures to their pile of resources. Right now they are having fun playing with language and experimenting. Thanks for sharing the pictures!!

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