Reportr.net
Making sense of the intersection between media, society and technology
Twitter CEO on tweets as a form of journalism
6 Aug 2009BBC Newsnight grilled Twitter co-founder and chief executive Evan Williams with questions that more often than not have a negative tone to them.
Twitter was accused of creating a false sense of community, being just a service for celebrities, dehumanising its users and possibly being just a fad.
The questions reveal a deep bias and misunderstanding against this new form of media from established media such as Newsnight, even though the programme itself is on Twitter.
More interesting were comments by Williams on Twitter as a form of journalism. He said it wasn’t journalism in a classic sense, but it does enable people to report news as it happens from where it is happening.
- Tags: Evan Williams, Newsnight, Twitter
Comment Form
About this blog
This blog is run by Professor Alfred Hermida, an award-winning online news pioneer, digital media scholar and journalism educator.
- JORNALICES | Jerónimo blogging about Media & Journalism: [...] Journalists value writing but not multimedia skills (tags: journalism multimedia routines icpd [...]
- Journal Register Rethinks News » Newspaper Death Watch: [...] role of the journalist is as aggregator and authenticator rather than original reporter. Quoti [...]
- Journal Register Rethinks News » Newspaper Death Watch: [...] role of the journalist is as aggregator and authenticator rather than original reporter. Quoti [...]
- Best free website development tools?: [...] Five free SEO tools to improve your search rankings [...] [...]
- This Week in Review: Gizmodo and the shield law, making sense of social data, and the WSJ’s local push | Mark Coddington: [...] conference included presentations on all kinds of stuff like Wikipedia, news site design, o [...]
- How the BBC developed its UK election coverage online
- IAMCR 2010 talk on journalism education at UBC
- Journalists value writing but not multimedia skills
- The challenges journalists face covering innovation
- Five free SEO tools for journalists
- Teaching Twitter in journalism schools
- How people love but worry about social media
- Pew Internet on how media habits have changed since 2000
- How news of the Canadian earthquake broke on Twitter
- Word clouds of official G20 messages
1 Response to Twitter CEO on tweets as a form of journalism
Recommended Links for August 13th | Alex Gamela - Digital Media & Journalism
August 13th, 2009 at 9:06 am
[...] Alexandre Gamela shared Twitter CEO on tweets as a form of journalism [...]