CNN in Second Life
Wednesday, October 31st, 2007Found this link from MediaWeek via PJ Net:
As news organizations slash budgets and scale back bureaus, CNN is expanding—except not in real life.Â
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.Â
This will be interesting to follow….