Twitter as a Tool for Journalism
ReadWriteWeb’s Marshall Kirkpatrick wrote an interesting piece this week on journalists the potential benefits they might see by adding Twitter to their bag of tricks.
Kirkpatrick advocates the use of Twitter for among other things: obtaining leads, interviewing and gaining feedback on stories as they are being written. Kirkpatrick and other writers for ReadWriteWeb have also used Twitter to develop a question set and to carry out a “public interview” process for some of their stories.
I find this idea very interesting, particularly the use of the “public interview” process. In my opinion, ReadWriteWeb’s writers are more apt to use this sort of process than say someone from the New York Times.
I wonder if there are any other journalists out there who have used Twitter or some other social networking / communication tool to perform a public interview for a piece top be published later? Chatting with viewers on MTV’s TRL doesn’t count.
I am curious.
Read the full story on how ReadWriteWeb uses Twitter for journalism. here.
