I’d love to talk to the reporters there in a year or two and get their take on how the car is working for them.
Shelby is doing a lot of other innovative things, too — NAA recently released an “Innovation in Action” report on Shelby. It’s available on GrowingAudience.com (look under Innovation in Action in the center column).
http://blog.syracuse.com/newstracker Brian Cubbison
It’s the kind of marketing that TV news is so good at, and there’s nothing wrong with that, but it seems like nearly everything there would fit it into a backpack. The next step is to outfit a half-dozen reporters instead of one car.
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Howard Owens is a digital media pioneer. He started publishing local news online in 1995 when very few local news outlets had web sites. The header image on the site depicts the film camera he used early in his career and the press pass from his year on the staff of the Carlsbad Journal. For more on Howard's professional background, read his LinkedIn profile.
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Howard is currently publisher of The Batavian and lives in Batavia, N.Y.