14 Jan, 10

Sky News | Raves

How Sky News used social media to be first with coverage of the Haiti earthquake

This is an inspiring account of how intelligent news media can be when traditional forms of news gathering aren't available.

Emily Purser is a journalism student working at Sky News and provides an inside account of how Twitter, Facebook and YouTube were used to enable them to be the first broadcaster with images from the devastated area.

Read the account for yourself and be inspired and see why Emily believes she'll never hear someone scoff at Twitter again.


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