Chapter 3 in Journalism Next was extremely eye opening. We have to take a step back to realize the importance of crowd-sourcing or having open-source news, because it truly allows journalists to get the right perspective.
A revolution begins, or someone is harmed, and the people that are there when it happens are the ones that have to react. With crowd and open-source information, we as journalists are able to break the story and give the real point of view of the audience directly involved.
There can be downfalls, too, but the immediacy it places on the spread of information cant go without applaud. So what if we have to check to make sure they’re reliable sources, the process wont take long when one thousand tweets say the same thing.
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