News from the people formerly known as the audience
IDEA No 85
REAL-TIME REPORTING
The first time many people heard of the brutal murder of British Army soldier Lee Rigby by two Islamic extremists in May 2013 was via Twitter. Many more people then watched a shaky video of one of the suspected killers covered in blood and holding a meat cleaver.
The video was shot on a phone. Another man, out shopping, live-Tweeted the killing. Professional journalists soon descended on the scene, but their role was to fill in the blanks rather than document the event.
The ubiquity of technology means that ordinary people can report breaking news faster than traditional media reporters. Social networking and the mobile phone have propelled citizen journalism to ...
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