ABSTRACT

News, to Sylvester, is no longer is a series of fi nite, deadline-driven events, but a stream of posts, tweets and, fi nally, stories.

Sylvester began blogging as an extension of his judicial reporting, and began Twitter feeds shortly after its launch. Watching TV coverage of trials, he began to wonder if he couldn’t begin to add video as well. With the help of colleagues in the Eagle ’s photography and Web departments, Sylvester patched together some equipment and started learning.