Video from Beet.tv: How Reuters used social media in Iran to source video
March 10th, 2010Posted by Laura Oliver in Citizen journalism, Social media and blogging
Earlier this week Reuters’ global editor Greg Beitchman told an industry debate on the future of video that the agency wants to make more of its raw film footage available to clients.
Speaking to Beet.tv in the video below, Beitchman explains how Reuters used social media, particularly Twitter, to source raw video footage from Iran during its coverage of the post-election protests:
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