There's an airplane in the hudson
Many people just use these programs as ego boosters, but there is so much more you can do.
Here are ways journalists are using these tools.
- build and interact with community of viewers
- source story ideas
- communicate on a (somewhat) more personal level
The list of journalists using these tools includes the Wichita Eagle's Ron Sylvester and NPR's Scott Simon. It will just continue to grow.
But when everyone has a twitter and a facebook is everyone a journalist?
Within minutes of US Airways Flight 1549 crashing into the Hudson River someone had already taken a picture and posted it on twitter.
News sites were able to use this information instantly.
I think the way that journalism will survive is if we learn to use these tools very effectively and are always looking for the next thing. If everyone is a journalist then the way we will survive is to make a really good product.
We need to help each other in order to do this. We are all in this together.
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