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Using drones to document climate change
Sean Gallagher is documenting the climate crisis in places like Tuvalu, and drones are allowing him to get shots that have incredible impact on the reader. Here’s how he does it.
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GoPro crashes out of the drone market - it needs to rethink its sales pitch
GoPro – makers of every extreme sports dude’s favourite camera – are pulling out of the drone market [https://www.theverge.com/2018/1/8/16862680/gopro-drones-business-stopped-layoffs-exit] : > In its earnings report today, the company said that although the Karma “reached the #2 market position in its price band in 2017,
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GoPro gives us all good video Karma
I’m teaching video this year, so I can write this off against tax, right?
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Watch: the best drone footage from the NYC Drone Film Festival
Footage from the best of the [NYC Drone Film Festival](http://www.nycdronefilmfestival.com).Remarkable stuff. It feels like we’re only scratching the surface of what drone journalism can do.
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Drone journalism needs restrictions, say pilots
Airline pilots campaigning for drone restrictions [http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2016/jan/29/drones-near-misses-major-uk-airports-heathrow-stansted] This might restrict the use of drone journalism to experts: > Airline pilots have called for a clampdown on drones, warning of potential disaster after four separate near-miss incidents at UK airports were reported in
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GoPro is building publicity for its first drone: Karma
GoPro badly [needs a new business line](http://thenextweb.com/insider/2016/01/14/gopro-misses-q4-revenue-goal-plans-to-cut-7-percent-of-workforce/#gref). Now wonder they’re pushing the new (and unreleased) [Karma drone](http://shop.gopro.com/EMEA/karma/2016.html) so hard.Still, it looks pretty cool…
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The power of drone journalism
A rather powerful example of the potential inherent in drone journalism
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The camera drone that follows you
Now, [that](https://www.lily.camera) I can see being a handy tool for some newsrooms.Pre-order now for $499 [https://www.lily.camera/#id], it’ll be $999 when it goes on sale early next year. Tempted?
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LeWeb: The delightful, dangerous, diversifying drone debate
A LeWeb session on drones, curated by Mr Robert Scoble [https://www.facebook.com/RobertScoble]. Robert Scoble Robert loosely puts drones in three categories: * Toys – and other things you’ll chase your cat with * Professional drones – made to carry cameras and other payloads. * B2B drones – soil analysers for farmers, architectural
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Reassessing the tech behind drone journalism
An encounter with drone tech at Blue Light Camp 2014.
consumer magazines
Consumer drone journalism? Sign me up...
I will confess, I’ve been something of a sceptic about drone journalism. It was not something I could see being useful outside a narrow range of broadcast and national news-type outlets. I was wrong. If this doesn’t make you consider how drone could be used in all sorts