The Blurry Lines of Animated ‘News’ [Voices]

By Pamela Boykoff, Reporter, CNN

It’s after 7 p.m. at Next Media’s offices in Taipei, and the day’s news starts coming to life: Artists lift details from news photos while actors in motion sensor suits re-create action sequences of stories making headlines. Animators graft cartoon avatars to the live-motion action, and the stories hit the Web.

Welcome to billionaire Jimmy Lai’s newest gamble: Animated news.

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