Virtual Journalism: Inside the Virtual Newsroom of the American University in Cairo

(You can find more background about this project here: http://eurekadejavu.blogspot.com/2009/04/launch-of-journalistic-experiment.html ) This documentary explores the evolving face of journalism and how virtual worlds are a part of that transformation. In January 2009 a group of eight Egyptian political bloggers including the well-known Wael Abbas, met with James K. Glassman then the US Undersecretary for Public Diplomacy and Public Affairs, in the virtual newsroom of the American University in Cairo in Second Life. The documentary is part of a broader collaborative project between Dancing Ink Productions and the American University in Cairo exploring how virtual worlds can be used to augment journalistic goals globally, cut costs and enhance and deepen the interview process by providing access to often hard-to-reach subjects. The project is directed by veteran American journalist and long-time Middle East correspondent Lawrence Pintak, head of the Kamal Adham Center for Journalism Research and Training at the American University in Cairo, and produced in collaboration with Dancing Ink Productions and Ill Clan Animation Studios with funding from USAID. For more information, please visit the project webpage for a complete archive of the project: http://dancinginkproductions.com/?page_id=318

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