Cover it Live

I'd like to predict, the emerging of something like Cover-it-Live, a website enables live reporting of events, would simply subvert traditional news reporting and writing. Because if we can report news sentence-by-sentence as it goes, why bother take extra hours to write it in "the inverted pyramid".

CoveritLive, a Toronto-based start-up founded in late 2007, says on its website that its users has been using it cover "millions of occasions from niche events like chess tournaments in Germany or local elections in London, to marquee events like the NFL draft and American Idol."

That is not to say journalists are becoming bookkeepers, a job that meticulously records numbers, in this case, facts (my least favorite job in the world). But journalists might want to consider one thing. There is obviously no advantage to compete speed with people reporting from CoveritLive, so where's the edge? Using an analogy from the finance industry, data recording and analysis are two different jobs. Let it be it in journalism, too. Let the CoveritLive reporters collect the facts. Journalists take the facts and ANALYZE them. Time to toss "objectivity" out of the window.