Australian professor Julie Posetti has a fascinating post on how Twitter has shaped the thinking and workflow of political journos.
From her post: “Twitter is becoming a vehicle for participatory democracy in Australia thanks to its ability to create unmediated interaction between political journalists, engaged citizens and politicians.”
“In the race to tweet, journalists are knocking down the walls that have in the past segregated media outlets within the Press Gallery. This is happening via content-sharing and cross-pollination between fiercely competitive commercial and public broadcast networks, newspapers and wire services.”
Read her whole post with info from her findings on PBS MediaShift
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