Saturday, May 24, 2008

Coverage of the Exeter attempted suicide bombing

Do read Gary Andrew's analyis of the coverage of the attempted suicide bombing in Exeter.

He looks at the coverage both in terms of the traditional media and new media and his conclusions?

The more events like this occur, the more opportunities and tools your average
reader will have to hunt down information. Twitter is becoming more useful as a
journalistic tool by the day, and once again showed its worth here.

any traditional media that ignores these social media tools and neglects the
user experience throughout breaking news, risks losing them elsewhere, possibly
for good.



but adds

if the paper or radio in question starts bringing together these tools on their website - ah, now that’s a different story.

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