“A leaked memo from USA Today parent company Gannett Co. has revealed that the company recently purchased thousands of iPhone 4S and iPad devices in order to aid its journalists in real-time reporting, video storytelling and social media participation,” AppleInsider reports.
“Gannett Blog, which is not affiliated with the company, published a memo on Wednesday, allegedly from Gannett’s U.S. newspapers division president Bob Dickey, detailing the publisher’s new technology strategy,” AppleInsider reports. “According to the memo, the company “purchased thousands of new devices,” including the iPhone 4S, iPad 2 and netbooks, for its journalists this week.”
MacDailyNews Take: Netbooks? Hope they got them typewriter ribbons and whiteout, too.
AppleInsider reports, “Journalists will also reportedly receive training in early 2012 on how to use the devices in order to maximize the impact of the initiative and enable them to do new things that Dickey ‘can’t even imagine yet.'”
Read more in the full article here.
MacDailyNews Take: Congrats to Gannett employees on t he iPads and iPhones! And, if by “netbooks,” they’re mistakenly referring to MacBook Airs, congrats on those, too.
[Thanks to MacDailyNews Readers “Jax44” and “Dow C.” for the heads up.]
Training: 2 hours tops.
Training? We don’t need no stinkin’ training!
Training: Open the box.
Journalist : Siri, what should I write about today?
Siri: Anything but vague Apple rumors that will be reported on MDN… PLEASE
LOL
A Netbook is a throwaway computer- a MacBook Air is not.
There are times when a netbook would make sense for a travelling reporter- especially if most everything is in the cloud.
$250/unit vs $1,000/unit
Possibly so. In my experience, however, throwaway tools are seldom the best answer. If you need a victim for “Will It Blend,” go ahead and use a netbook. But I would rather have one MBA than four or five netbooks. That’s why I bought one.
There’s no step 3. There’s no step 3!
Not 1 but doubleplus 1! Love the reference.
Train them? Even cats and dogs knows how to use it, just look at the wiskas and dogchow videos at YouTube.
In the other hand, they are buying netbooks, that tells you they can be dumber than that.
That’s great, but how many people will lose their jobs because of all the money Gannett just spent on Apple products?
Now if Gannett would only hire some real journalists.