MediatingConflict: Do news orgs need to double-check Twitter?
March 12th, 2009Posted by Judith Townend in Editors' pick, Social media and blogging
Following up on a post looking at the Channel 4 News’ use of Twitter (picked up from the Journalism.co.uk ‘Twinterview’ with Krishnan Guru-Murthy) Daniel Bennett looks at at the BBC’s policy:
“First, I said I’d be surprised if any of the BBC’s Twitter feeds are checked either. So I was surprised when I discovered that the BBC’s Global News feed does actually pass through an editorial process whereby someone double-checks a tweet before it is published.”
Bennett uses an earlier comment from Charlie Beckett about verification in the process of reporting television news, and then asks, “What do journalists double-check and why? What doesn’t get checked and why? Does the checking process make any sense?”
Tags: BBC, Charlie Beckett, Daniel Bennett, fact-checking, Journalism.co.uk, Krishnan Guru-Murthy, mediating conflict, Twitter, verification
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