Newsrooms use Google Maps to improve wildfire coverage

Newsrooms use Google Maps to improve wildfire coverage is the title of an article that covers a new kind of journalism that I haven't even heard of. Combining two different types of media to express an idea or current event is exactly what these newsrooms did. Google maps is a tool that is mostly used by people in their homes searching for directions. However, this time they were used for something that benefits a wide range of people. By using this effective tool, millions of people around the country were able to more effectively keep track of the wildfires that occurred in Southern California.

While the blog entry I recently posted with my own mad is an example of convergence journalism, it isn't quite as effective because not as many people are reading it. Either way, I am still writing and publishing an article and the public can view it. Of course, only my classmates will benefit from my post because my peers' residential locations aren't exactly a prime interest of the rest of the country.

Hometowns :)

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