{"id":3441,"date":"2012-12-04T10:44:41","date_gmt":"2012-12-04T10:44:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/praag.org\/?p=3441"},"modified":"2012-12-04T10:46:31","modified_gmt":"2012-12-04T10:46:31","slug":"drone-media","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/praag.org\/?p=3441","title":{"rendered":"Drone media?"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Here comes the fly-by media. Preliminary use of diminutive drones is under way among those who see the potential of drones in news gathering, not to mention invasive \u201cgotcha\u201d-style journalism. Deadline Detroit \u2014 \u201ca homegrown media revolution\u201d manned by former veteran journalists \u2014 has already used footage made by \u201cTretch5000,\u201d an anonymous hobbyist who used a camera-mounted drone to peek inside abandoned housing and old civic buildings, producing a telling video vignette.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere\u2019s a part of me that finds this kind of creepy and fraught with \u2018big brother is watching\u2019 issues. While we might trust public radio journalists and academics, there were rumors earlier this week that TMZ had purchased a drone to assist in its paparazzi-style coverage of celebrities,\u201d says Vince Duffy, chairman of the Radio Television Digital News Association.<\/p>\n

\u201cBut why wouldn\u2019t they get one? Could websites that cover celebrities resist the urge to fly drones over celebrity weddings, outdoor red carpets, and beaches where starlets might be caught topless?\u201d Mr. Duffy asks.<\/p>\n

The University of Missouri has awarded a $25,000 grant to public radio station KBIA to explore drone journalism in places \u201creporters can\u2019t go or reach,\u201d while the University of Nebraska has won $50,000 from the Knight Foundation for a new Drone Journalism Lab.Mr. Duffy points out that the Federal Aviation Administration requires unmanned aircraft systems to be within the operator\u2019s line of sight, cruise below 400 feet during daylight hours and avoid airports, among other things.<\/p>\n

\u201cJournalism organizations would certainly have many reasons to fly drones far from the person controlling it, or on some type of preprogrammed autopilot course,\u201d Mr. Duffy says. \u201cThe FAA is looking into how it can regulate the coming \u2018drone age\u2019 safely. They expect to have new rules by 2015. The ethical issues for using drones for journalism will probably be up in the air much after that.\u201d – Washington Times<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Here comes the fly-by media. Preliminary use of diminutive drones is under way among those who see the potential of drones in news gathering, not to mention invasive \u201cgotcha\u201d-style journalism. Deadline Detroit \u2014 \u201ca homegrown media revolution\u201d manned by former veteran journalists \u2014 has already used footage made by \u201cTretch5000,\u201d an anonymous hobbyist who used … Continue reading “Drone media?”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3443,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,10],"tags":[1040,1236,2257,2207,2258],"class_list":["post-3441","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-united-states","tag-big-brother","tag-drones","tag-invasive-journalism","tag-journalism","tag-news-2"],"cc_featured_image_caption":{"caption_text":false,"source_text":false,"source_url":false},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/drone.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3441","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3441"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3441\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3445,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3441\/revisions\/3445"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/3443"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3441"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3441"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3441"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}