New Media Technologies and the Making of the New Global Reporter

Abstract

This article considers the figure of the new global reporter and her/his engagement with new media technologies. Through a discussion of the Urban Jungle Pack and the working environment and culture of Bloomberg financial news reporters, the article argues that while the work of contemporary reporters is partly defined by the uses of new technologies, it more fundamentally involves the production of a journalistic self. There is, then, an emphasis in this paper on the human figure of the reporter and an understanding that the job of reporting involves the manufacture of contexts, or fields of proof, where personal and professional skills work together with technological validation.