Showing posts with label news media law. Show all posts
Showing posts with label news media law. Show all posts

Thursday, 7 May 2009

CITIZEN JOURNALISM AND NEWS GATHERING TOOLS

Keeping Stock is in a bit of a lather over the fact that TVNZ is using twitter to solicit pictures and comments about the Napier police shooting. He is outraged. We are not. New gathering is legitimate and twitter is just the new tool of the day. It is no different than getting people to phone in from incidents like we used to in broadcasting in the early 80's.
Welcome to citizen journalism.