CNNis adding to its roster for local coverage...
Each city will get one person who can provide "grassroots level" coverage of breaking news and other local stories, said Nancy Lane, senior vice president of newsgathering for CNN/U.S.The mix of traditional general assignment reporters and "all-platform journalists" may be based at affiliate stations, colleges or even at home, Lane said, with the best available technology to file film and photo reports via laptop computers and PDAs.
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Besides Philadelphia and Seattle, the journalists will be located in Columbus, Ohio; Denver; Houston; Las Vegas; Orlando, Fla.; Phoenix; Raleigh-Durham, N.C., and Minneapolis, Minn., where the approach was tested and is in operation.
CNN, owned by Time Warner Inc., has bureaus in Atlanta, Boston, Chicago, Dallas, New Orleans, Los Angeles, Miami, New York, San Francisco and Washington, D.C.
Hrm... solo journalists without support staff on-site... where?
One man bands? Or will they be harassing the so-called CNN Affiliates for equipment and crew to uplink?
How will this fly in union shops?
And when there's a major event, think they're going to get top priority when the station they're sitting in gets a call from their primary network affiliate... or station group owner... or trading partners?