Comments on: Why journalists are uneasy talking about Twitter as journalism

By: Consider the journalism on Twitter, not whether Twitter is journalism – Web Works

Sun, 29 Nov 2009 22:02:58 +0000

[...] is a medium and cannot be considered as a whole, writes Alfred Hermida, who’s worried that we’re about to rehash the old argument about whether a new medium “is [...]

By: Consider the journalism on Twitter, not whether Twitter is journalism | Hypercrit

Sun, 29 Nov 2009 22:02:38 +0000

[...] is a medium and cannot be considered as a whole, writes Alfred Hermida, who’s worried that we’re about to rehash the old argument about whether a new medium “is journalism.” [...]

By: The Relationship Between Twitter and Journalism « Reporting 1 Blog

The Relationship Between Twitter and Journalism « Reporting 1 Blog — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 02:07:42 +0000

[...] phone to read and tweet about anything you want to talk about. However, I have read an article “,Why Journalist are uneasy talking about Twitter as journalism,” which Alfred Hermida discussed about a new terms called “ambient journalism” that twitter [...]

By: richard sambrook

richard sambrook — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 21:51:33 +0000

To be fair Alf I wasn’t reheating the Blogging/Twitter/Social Media isnt journalism debate. I was actually asking if Twitter could go further and curate journalism better – as structures like lists start to appear. Currently it is, of course, a platform and provides an information stream. But as real time public dialogue establishes itself at the heart of social media, and at the heart of public debate we need to find ways to support verification, reflection, analysis, context etc. As one person at the unconference put it – a call for “slow journalism” alongside (not instead of) and supporting the accelerated news cycle that real time dialogue like Twitter provides.

By: Steve Beste

Steve Beste — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 18:11:48 +0000

Seems that one commits journalism when one discovers and artifact or an idea, learns more about the truth of it, then shares the idea with a wider audience. Using twitter to do this is perfectly acceptable as is using Google, texting, email, camera, calling or meeting someone.

By: Steve

Steve — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 16:24:27 +0000

So much of this angst over what is and is not journalism is just self-indulgent navel gazing. Is Fox news “journalism”? Is MSNBC? Is Lou Dobbs a journalist? Or Rachel Madow? The major outlets have gone far down the path of substituting opinion for reporting and its funny to see them denouncing new forms of media and communication even as they scramble to look cool by adopting them. Blogs and Twitter serve a vital function…. they keep the “real” journalists honest by catching them in their (to be generous) careless fact checking.