Monday, 27 November 2017

The Social Media Effect

By Sam Laird
Mashable

'More than ever, people are using Twitter, Facebook and other social media sources to learn about what's happening in the world, as traditional news outlets become increasingly less relevant to the digital generation.'

Online news now generates more revenue than print newspapers- suppressing it.

Pros:

  • immediacy to news stories
  • everyone has the ability to report
  • stories are disseminated quickly
  • phones can go where some TV reporters and there cameras can't, such as courtrooms

Cons:

  • Twitter only allows for 140 characters to tell a story
  • inaccurate information 
  • missing facts in stories
  • journalistic integrity could be comprimised
  • amateur reporters putting themselves or others in harms way to get a news story


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