Web-based video is now providing a direct view into one of the highest profile trials in the world, thanks to a Spanish company called Datadiar. Spain is trying 29 men in the deadly train bombings that shocked the world in 2004.
Security is tight and visitor seats are, I suspect, non-existent, but thanks to an alliance that Datadiar formed with the tribunal, the Audiencia Nacional, video of the trial is broadcast every day on the web, captured by five cameras placed in the courtroom — four posted at various angles in the court and a fifth for capturing images of evidence. Datadiar also has 43 microphones throughout the room.
The coverage features no commentary, a la C-SPAN. The judge overseeing the case is, if not web-friendly, then journalism friendly — he wrote a manual for legal journalism called “Lifting the Veil.” When asked why he opened the proceedings to the world on the Internet, Judge Javier Gomez Bermudez said because “there are so many victims, and they can’t all fit in here.”
Cynthia Brumfield at 10:14 AM|Comments(0)
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