Livestreaming Journalists Want to Occupy the Skies With Cheap Drones

Livestreaming Journalists Want to Occupy the Skies With Cheap Drones

News From The Future

Pt 472

Livestreaming Journalists Want to Occupy the Skies With Cheap Drones

It may not sound like much: A video blogger bought a toy helicopter.

But the blogger is 25-year-old Tim Pool — an internationally known journalist who attracts tens of thousands of viewers to his live-stream broadcasts from Occupy Wall Street protests in New York, DC, LA and other cities. (His feeds and archival footage are also aired on mainstream networks such as NBC.) He and his partners hope that the toy chopper — the $300 Parrot AR Drone — will be one step toward a citizen-driven alternative to mainstream news.

Predictions For 2012

Drone journalism

Pt 353

In 2011, the “person of the year” was the protester. What’s 2012 going to have? More protests and ways to cover them. Low-cost, citizen made UAVs will make appearances. The operators will be first on the scene, to protests and to the natural disasters. Drone Journalism. To watch, stream, record, report, sense and to watch the watchers. The cellphone video cameras from the street will have wings.

4 thoughts on “Livestreaming Journalists Want to Occupy the Skies With Cheap Drones

  1. EJB says:

    Currently there are no comments because anything critical is censored by Make.

  2. Ian says:

    It would be amazing if the drones carried meshing wifi as well as cameras. This would enable everybody to report!

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