Press Gazette: French journalists’ five day social media experiment
January 21st, 2010Posted by Judith Townend in Broadcasting, Editors' pick, Social media and blogging
Five journalists from French speaking radio stations – France Inter, France Info, RTS and RTBF radio - are to restrict their sources to Twitter and Facebook for five days “in an effort to determine the value of information received through social media,” reports Press Gazette, via Le Parisien.
Le Parisien reports that under a project called “Behind closed doors on the net”, which will take place between the 1 and 5 February, the journalists will have no access to TV, radio or print media and will have to get a view of world events through social media alone.
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January 22nd, 2010 at 3:54 pm
[...] Press Gazette: French journalists’ five day social media experiment (blogs.journalism.co.uk) [...]
January 25th, 2010 at 10:05 am
[...] Ingram is sceptical about an experiment in which five French journalists intend to limit their sources to social media for a week. Put simply, the French project is a farce and a sideshow. All it risks “proving” is [...]
February 5th, 2010 at 4:10 pm
[...] The Today programme has a brief interview with Janic Tremblay, journalist for Radio Canada, one of five journalists from French-speaking radio stations involved in a five-day experiment this week using social media sites and networks as their only source of news. [...]
February 22nd, 2010 at 10:27 pm
That is very interesting. Did they succeed?
August 4th, 2010 at 11:41 am
[...] radio journalist who took part in a week-long social media experiment – confining herself and four other journalists from French-speaking stations to an isolated [...]