Categories: OLD Media Moves

Biz reporter trying to replace laptop with tablet for work

Robert Schoenberger, a business reporter with the Cleveland Plain Dealer, is experimenting using a Samsung Galaxy Tab for work instead of his normal laptop.

Schoenberger writes, “The torture test will come in January when I take this tablet to the North Amrican International Auto Show in Detroit. The event requires me to constantly tweet and file story updates for 72 hours and to file stories for print as well.

“After only one day with the tablet, I can see that Microsoft is not out of the running yet when it comes to mobile computing.

“The Samsung is an Android tablet, using Google’s operating system. The Moveable Type software we use at The Plain Dealer and Cleveland.com favors PCs.

“When using my sister’s Apple computer a few years ago, I ran into a few glitches. With the Android system, it’s much worse.

“The automatic coding system for our blog software doesn’t work with any of the Android browser’s that I’ve tried, so I have to hand code each line of text.”

Read more here. The photo above shows Plain Dealer business editor Randy Roguski and deputy business editor Clara Roberts humoring Schoenberger as he experiments with the camera in Samsung’s Galaxy Tab tablet computer.

Chris Roush

Chris Roush was the dean of the School of Communications at Quinnipiac University in Hamden, Connecticut. He was previously Walter E. Hussman Sr. Distinguished Professor in business journalism at UNC-Chapel Hill. He is a former business journalist for Bloomberg News, Businessweek, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, The Tampa Tribune and the Sarasota Herald-Tribune. He is the author of the leading business reporting textbook "Show me the Money: Writing Business and Economics Stories for Mass Communication" and "Thinking Things Over," a biography of former Wall Street Journal editor Vermont Royster.