Wednesday 10 March 2010

What is CAR and how will it help?

CAR is short for Computer-Assisted Report, and it “refers to anything that uses computers to aid in the newsgathering process " Kawamoto thought CAR could be use the internet to find out information about a specific topic. Stephen Lamble’s claimed that using Computer-Assisted Research can help you create a strong original stories often do not, or can not in any other way, or in a particular time.

Computer-Assisted Report is a tool for journalists. On one hand, the CAR increased the efficiency of journalists’ work to analysis the data with the story. On the other hand, Computer-Assisted Report could help the nonprofessional people, who are citizen journalists and public. The nonprofessionals used computer to do the story.



Reference:

Kevin, K. (2003), Digital Journalism – Emerging Media and the Changing Horizons of Journalism, Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc, UK

1 comment:

  1. CAR really helps journalists to report the news and also provide ordinary people, like me, to transmit my voice to public. By the way, I like the video. It’s really interesting.

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