Journalists Still a-Twitter About Social Media
http://www.pbs.org/mediashift/2009/02/journalists-still-a-twitter-about-social-media035.html

Taylor, Alana
PBS
2009

Abstract:

Twitter is popular not just because it allows journalists to crowdsource with thousands of people or because it's a fun way of amassing followers and inflating egos. It also gives reporters a chance to create a new system of reporting. In the past, journalists were confined to their words and research methods, all dictated by traditional routines. Now they can create new strategies, use different tools, brand themselves differently, and propose new ideas. Twitter has given them hope and direction to do this because it has given them a public forum in which to loudly speak their ideas.