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Comment on ATS2787 Week One Forum: The challenges of real time reporting by Australian Online Journalist

Australian Online Journalist — Wed, 14 Mar 2012 08:30:39 +0000

Well put! It’s interesting to see just how hard Mitchell came out swinging on this issue, but why? It will also be interesting to see how The Oz approaches social media etc. when they eventually fill their newly created position of social media editor.

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Australian Online Journalist — Wed, 14 Mar 2012 08:24:40 +0000

Thanks Jess. Interesting to see that the BBC and Sky revert to tighter controls. Possibly to prevent journos scooping their own organisations? Or a reluctance to empower journos to speak directly to their audience? Good article, well done.

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Australian Online Journalist — Wed, 14 Mar 2012 08:21:27 +0000

Good post, Lauren. Some excellent points raised.

Comment on ATS2787 Week One Forum: The challenges of real time reporting by Lauren Exton

Lauren Exton — Wed, 14 Mar 2012 02:57:26 +0000

Lessons can be learned from this case. We learn from Posetti that live tweeting can be high-risk, especially if your subject is a disgruntled former employee of a national newspaper, keen to set the record straight on why that newspaper featured so few ‘hard-hitting’ reports on climate change.

The lessons are: record your interviews, don’t mis-quote anyone and exercise extreme caution if the comments you are reporting are negative in nature and potentially labelled as defamatory. These lessons apply across all mediums, not just to live-tweeting.

The lesson here that applies directly to live-tweeting is about context. When your 140 character tweet, whether you have published verbatim or you’ve paraphrased, appears in your followers feed, it is not topped with your thoughtfully scripted introduction, and tailed with your summary. Rather, it is underneath @Wil_Anderson’s Bob Katter joke and above @Warne888′s love tweet. This makes it difficult to provide context, and this is the part that baffles me. Is it satisfactory to live-tweet it as it breaks and then follow up with a tweet contextualising the situation?

On a side note: Mitchell went after the tweeter, not the speaker, so for Wahlquist, and other journo’s considering a spray on their former editor/employer, does the rule apply -”you’re safe if someone is merely tweeting you, but not if someone is recording.”…?

Comment on ATS2787 Week One Forum: The challenges of real time reporting by jjordan30

jjordan30 — Tue, 06 Mar 2012 21:27:21 +0000

I’m not sure I agree that Posetti didn’t maintain good journalistic practice. Having listened to the audio (the clip provided on the ABC News website) I find it difficult to image any context Wahlquist might have provided before the audio started that would have changed the meaning of her statements and her tone. Perhaps for the tweet in which she couldn’t reproduce Wahlquist’s comments verbatim she should have paraphrased a bit better. This reminds me of the citizen journalism v traditional debate which resulted from Mayhill Fowler’s report for the Huffington Post, when Obama’s ill-judged comments on working-class voters went viral in the lead up to the 2008 election.

Here is a relevant article from the Guardian. BBC and Sky reporters have been told to send copy to their news desks before posting the news on Twitter, although this seems to be to ensure that breaking news is disseminated from their own (and more traditional) news platforms: http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2012/feb/08/twitter-bbc-journalists.

Jess Jordan (ATS2787)

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Robin Jean Marie — Tue, 06 Mar 2012 20:09:38 +0000

Well put, AOJ!

Comment on ATS2787 Week One Forum: The challenges of real time reporting by Jackson Stiles

Jackson Stiles — Mon, 05 Mar 2012 23:51:47 +0000

What is perhaps the most pertinent lesson to be gleaned from this case is the tenacity with which traditional media will fight to protect against the appearance of bias. Regardless of news room policies or practices, print media has long regarded itself as reliable and impartial: a reasoned social voice. The reality that consumer opinion does and must influence the news reported on – perhaps journalism’s worst-kept secret – is still a fiercely guarded secret by the “old guard.” The lesson for today’s journalist? Newspapers may be dying, but they can still afford retainers. Despite the fact that Posetti might not have misrepresented Wahlquist’s comments at all, Posetti will still suffer if The Australian pushes forward with defamation, regardless of the end result. Thus, be wary of pointing fingers at the big papers. At least until they are cold and dead.