There are strict editorial guidelines. Anyone that happens to approach any breaking news story that can be visualized by a photo has to update the website within a two-minute time frame. … That’s no vision of a far future. It’s reality at the small Austrian newspaper Vorarlberger Nachrichten, which is a new-media pioneer in many ways. Reporters and photographers are equipped with photo-enabled mobile phones and are updating the website constantly with pictures and even short videos — although most often with images of car accidents, to be honest.
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