Like that was ever gonna happen

Ha... revisited something I wrote from three years ago,

The second point that interests me from a practical point of view is how a combination of twitter/blog/flickr/crowdsourcing can aid the reporter in best reporting the raw facts and then help develop a story. I think the idea of a Twitter network has legs for journalists/editors. Blogs are well proven as are Flickr, YouTube et al - and remember if I hadn't uploaded these pics to Flickr I might never have found out (or it might have taken me longer to find out) that the police were actively deleting digital images in Toulouse on Sunday. For the journalist, the skill is in meshing all these tools together in a meaningful way. link

Ha... Like that was ever gonna happen.

Comments

[Cristina Balan]

Hi Graham,

Just can't imagine how much time would one need to dig for a 3 y.o. story if it were printed in a newspaper... Definitely some ROI in there.

Speaking of the "ingredients" one might use in checking the info, I wonder how fair would it be to expose a blogger/Twitterist/Flickerist etc who provides you the raw meat. After all, journalism is not exclusively about mixing seasonings, accountability is the recipe as well.

Best from a sunny Bucharest, Cristina

[Graham]

Hi there, good to hear from you.

I tend to be of a mind that you contact the person involved directly and discuss this as, from experience, a lot of people don't really see a lot of their "stuff" as being in the public domain, but I do :)

I take it on a case by case basis, but at the end of the day a story is a story... And this is where old and "social" media can clash.