Nieman Reports: Twitter should add to and not replace reporting
July 22nd, 2008Posted by Laura Oliver in Editors' pick, Online Journalism
John Dickerson, Slate’s chief political correspondent, describes how Twitter has become the home for ‘all of those asides I’ve scribbled in the hundreds of notebooks’.
Reporters should use it to add colour and extra insight into their beats and their work. Journalists should not try and make the service do more than this, he argues.
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