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Wichita reporter tweets from federal trial

By Mark Obbie

Ron Sylvester, the Wichita Eagle reporter I blogged about last month, continues his push to expand trial coverage via Twitter. He's convinced a Kansas federal judge to allow him to use the social-networking tool from the courtroom in a criminal trial that began this week. Sylvester was tweeting his heart out during jury selection yesterday. Bob Ambrogi is doing a good job of tracking Sylvester's progress, filling his reports with other updates on Twitter in the courtroom and elsewhere in the legal world. I'll keep an eye on this trial, and assess whether I was a bit harsh in criticizing Sylvester's previous trials-by-Twitter (I hasten to add, I'm a critic so far of the medium's ability to inform the average reader, but I am a fan of the veteran courthouse reporter Sylvester's innovation and hard work on behalf of his readers).

Full post as published by Lawbeat on February 26, 2009 (boomark / email).