Television journalists don't hide behind news anchor desks anymore.
My friend Marisa Buchanan is currently reporting in Africa for MSNBC. Following her network's push for more digital material, she's producing a whole array of content about a difficult story--including blog posts, video shorts, and nightly news features.
Her example should cheer us up, shows how journalists can function in this new media environment. More importantly, new media has given her a platform to tell stories that no one is telling right now.
Check it out:
"Our challenge is to convey that what's happening there is no less real than if you came home one day and found your house burned to the ground and half your family missing or ill ... We talked for awhile and one question came up again and again: What is the U.N. doing? For now, tremendous humanitarian work, but my friend repeated, what are they DOING? Here's a link to the United Nations' Mission in the Sudan. If you want, you can call your congressmen and women and ask the same question."
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