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Web Video Series Shows Drama in the Courts

By Robert J. Ambrogi

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Attention Silver Gavel Awards judges: I have your next award winner. If the purpose of these ABA awards is to recognize those in the media who have been exemplary in helping to foster public understanding of the legal system, then give Ron Sylvester his due. Sylvester is a reporter who covers courts and legal affairs for The Wichita Eagle. Readers of this blog may remember him as possibly the first news reporter to cover a capital murder trial via Twitter. Even before that, he was already a journalistic innovator in his use of live-blogging to cover trials. He continues both to tweet and to blog regularly from the courts. Beginning today, he is once again blazing a new path in legal journalism, launching Common Law, a Web video series that aims to show the human drama in the day-to-day workings of Wichita's courts. His focus will not be on the sensational cases the media typically cover, but on the routine cases that come before the courts and the impact they have on people's lives. I?ll keep covering the high-profile crimes that hit our city, including our live Twitter updates. But we hope that with this series, you?ll learn more from...

Full post as published by Legal Blog Watch on July 21, 2009 (boomark / email).