This post is in response to Mark Coddington's post about the International Symposium on Online Journalism.
The most alarming part about his post has to be the first bullet point that news organizations are posting their stories to Twitter instead of actively engaging users over Twitter. This is very disturbing to me because Twitter for journalists isn't meant just to be a portal to an online website. It is meant to be a place to engage users in two-way communication.
We have already dealt with this type of journalism earlier in the class with John Dickerson's report on Twitter practices. He argued that Twitter is meant to be something to interact with readers. He pointed out that the Twitter posts he made during the 2008 presidential race were perfect examples of the way Twitter should be used. I agree with. Microjournalism (journalism over Twitter) is not something journalists should reduce themselves to. Coddington brings up this point as well and I agree with him.
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