Jake Batsell
Southern Methodist University prof Jake Batsell raises a thought-provoking discussion over at Journalism 2.0, as he presents the pros and cons of liveblogging (or Tweeting, or whatever) a courtroom trial. Batsell presented a case study to his class:
“…examining the Bakersfield Californian’s Web coverage of a quintuple-murder trial in 2007. The young reporter was under pressure from her editors to blog from the courtroom as often as every 10 minutes. Errors sneaked into the copy, and the blog updates mostly amounted to a blow-by-blow transcript.”
Bad news, indeed. But Batsell balances that with a different example:
“Jason Trahan, federal courts reporter for The Dallas Morning News… on Friday wrapped up his award-winning print and Web coverage of a Dallas City Hall corruption trial…
The Dallas Bar Association specifically praised his trial blog coverage when handing him an award for legal reporting, and he also was named the paper’s 2009 Beat Reporter of the Year.”
Where do you stand on liveblogging court cases? Some judges have banned tweeting in the courtroom. Is this any different than broadcasting a trial?
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