It’s an interesting question. Well, if you work or care about the media, it’s an interesting question. Here’s an excerpt from the article:
Veterans of the Twitterverse have grown used to seeing the hashtag “#BREAKING:” followed by a sentence of seconds-old news, leaving them to trust the sender’s unspoken promise that an accompanying story is minutes away.
But whom should journalists inform first when they have a big story―their editors or the Internet? As reporters begin to grow more comfortable with social media, the question is being raised in newsrooms around the world.
The debate has spawned two opposing schools of thought: One group of news organizations is treating social media similarly to their print or online outlets, requiring that the tweets pass through an editorial checkpoint before being distributed. Another group is scrapping editorial oversight of Twitter altogether, allowing reporters to freely break news.
One staunch subscriber to the former group is the BBC, which introduced its new social media guidelines in February – guidelines that suggest the breaking news will have to wait a few seconds.
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