NEWSDESK: HOW WE COVER

HOW DO WE COVER THE NEWS?

Beyond doubt, the 21st century has brought a whole new way of communicating, connecting, and sharing within and among ourselves and our world. It isn’t merely that people read or watch on portable screens - the whole way we interact with content and our expectations for what content can be and where content comes from has changed ... and continues to change. 

Term like "television" and "newspaper" describe delivery devices - but the reality is that we read, listen, watch, and interact on everything from paper to large monitors to computer screen, to all manner of digital mobile devices.  To meet people where they are we, as media, have to take on a certain fearlessness in trying new approaches and bringing new voices to the table.

How we report

Our small newsroom works with and within the community to gather and share stories using video, audio, spoken work, written, work and interactive presentations. The values of quality, accuracy, fairness, and balance matter more than ever, and our challenge lies in bringing these values to emerging media forms and to all participants within them.

We reach out and listen to different voices because community is inclusive of many different sub-communities, all of whom have stories of value to share with others. We seek to report the under-reported and bring the national local, so we can all connect and together shape this special peninsula we call Cape Cod.

How we use technology

We have to rethink the forms and format of information in the world we live into today. It isn’t just about how we distribute video content - or audio content or textual content. Indeed, we need to reshape the very form communication takes. 

We record both in the studio and in the field. We use a range of cameras equipped for recording both image and sound - from traditional video camera, to DSLRs, to cell phones. We use mixers and microphones and a voice-over booth to amp up audio. We carry old-fashioned paper reporter notebooks as well as digital tablets and phones to record notes and observations and data. We edit using Macs and Final Cut.

We create versions of stories the weave together video, audio, the written word, and the spoken word for:

• Cable TV (ch 29 and 22)
• Web (lowercapenews.org, artslight.org)
• Social media
• Podcasts
• Mobile apps (get your web app free at lowercapetv.app or artslight.app)
• Newsletters (sign up for free here )

And we're always open to trying new forms and formats - let us know where and how you'd like to find us!