Tuning in to multimedia reporting:

For the past year, NPR has been asking its radio reporters to lug digital cameras and video cameras an assignments as a way of enhancing its Web site. Reporters are not required to add cameras to their usual bag of sound recorders, but the station’s push for a greater Web presence has made incorporating multimedia into its reports inevitable.

“These people are certainly not professional photographers, but they capture what reporters are seeing on the ground,” said Maria Thomas, vice president of NPR Online. CNN