At Newseum, Mobile Phones, Bloggers Upstage Old Media

When the Newseum was last open to the public in 2002, a prominent feature was Walter Cronkite's hulking TV camera. Today, when the journalism museum reopens in Washington, a spotlight will be on Jamal Albarghouti's phone. Bloomberg reports.

"Albarghouti used his mobile phone's camera to record video during last year's massacre at Virginia Tech University. The graduate student e-mailed his footage to CNN, bringing the news to the nation before the networks got anywhere near the scene.

That shift sums up a new mission of the interactive Newseum, which at $450 million is among the most expensive museums ever built: to reflect the revolution in the media, where citizen reporters, bloggers and Web sites have overtaken an industry once dominated by a few centralized news sources. "

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