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MinnPost: WCCO TV’s ‘The Wire’ lets audience in on the story

Minneapolis-based television station WCCO TV has launched a new interactive, online news feature allowing its audience to participate in stories. The Wire was previewed last October, and is now online in beta.

Here’s how it works: A WCCO reporter or staffer kicks off a story in the timeline. As the story unfolds, updates are done, but where it gets interesting is this: We — formerly known as the audience but geared to be highly participative in today’s online world — are able to submit relevant perspective, information and media we capture digitally and report on the story!

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Lost Remote: How WCCO broke a story on Twitter

From Lost Remote, a story about how a TV station broke a story via Twitter in the US.

“When a source told WCCO-TV’s Mark Rosen that Brett Favre would join the Minnesota Vikings, he sent out a tweet. Moments later, other reporters re-tweeted the news, and it was piped out to Facebook. Soon, WCCO was one of the top three trending topics on Twitter, reports MinnPost, sending a big traffic burst to WCCO.com. The tweet beat WCCO’s TV coverage, but not by much.”

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