A Challenger Appears

Though many people support the integration of social media operations into traditional media outlets, and the growth of social media, some do not. Robert G. Picard, from the Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism at the University of Oxford, believes that the integration of social media techniques into traditional media corporations can be a [...]

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News, Unintended

Twitter has the potential to break news stories before the mainstream press and has proven so on numerous occasions.  Twitter users around the world have utilized the social medium to update the globe on both natural and man-made disasters as they occur and in the aftermath of such events. For example, when a US plane made an emergency crash [...]

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Crowdsourcing – The Future of Investigative Journalism?

While doing some research for our upcoming video, I came upon an interesting article: “When the Media Meets Crowds of Wisdom” by Karthika Muthukumaraswamy. This brought me onto a whole other focus for our topic of social networking and broadcast media, a use that until now I had no label for: crowdsourcing. This is not [...]

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