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The Twitter breaking-news feed

Steve Outing has an interesting suggestion for how news sites might use Twitter:

Here’s what you do next time a BIG story hits: As you send your reporters out to cover the story, get them to post short bits of news (limited to 140 characters) to a Twitter feed that either you’ve set up for this story, or that you keep ready for significant breaking news. With reporters filing short bits from their cell phones, you’ll be able to offer your audience new information even faster than you could with a breaking-news blog. “Rescue crews just pulled a body out from under the 12th Street Bridge.” “Police are chasing an apparent suspect on foot near the downtown library.”

Feed this to your site and to subscribed cell phone alerts. Urge your readers to “follow” your breaking-news Twitter stream from their own Twitter accounts.

The Twitter breaking-news feed

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BBC News reorganizes into multimedia newsroom

BBC News has reorganized its news division into a “multimedia newsroom” that combines radio, TV and online.

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Beat reporting with a social network

Jay Rosen has initiated an interesting experiment in which he’s recruited 12 news organizations to particpate in a social network beat reporting experiment.

He says:

Maybe a beat reporter could do a way better job if there was a “live” social network connected to the beat, made up of people who know the territory the beat covers, and want the reporting on that beat to be better.

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