Why drone journalism is in for a rocky ride
by Nicole Martinelli
Airborne newsgathering is a hot topic, but some experts believe that drone journalism may have a hard time really getting off the ground.
After spotting cameras on the wing snapping spectacular footage of protests and natural disasters, I wanted to learn more, so I enlisted Burt Herman of Hacks/Hackers and we gathered Chris Anderson of Wired, Jennifer Lynch of the EFF, Tyler Brown of the Occucopter project and Matt Waite of the Drone Journalism Lab for a recent meetup at Storify headquarters.
The upshot: the difficulties and danger of flying unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) may result in failure to launch a major trend soon, but journalists will still be writing about them. And there will probably a few journalists who won’t mind running afoul of the law to try them out, anyway.
