Social networks + Reporters + History = Future of News
“If JFK was assassinated today, how would the news look?” was a question for many journalists and news readers as the 50th anniversary of President Kennedy’s assassination approached. Columbia College Chicago Journalism Department teamed up with Chicago’s Museum of Broadcast Communications to explore this question.
Here’s how it looked as reporters watched and tweeted during a re-broadcast of NBC’s original coverage from November 22, 1963.
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Barbara K. Iverson, PhD.
Journalism
Columbia College Chicago
http://currentbuzz.org
http://chicagotalks.org
drbarb: twitter
Barbara K. Iverson is co-founder and web guru for Chicagotalks.org, a community and citizen news website. She teaches Online Journalism at Columbia College Chicago. Barbara teaches and conducts workshops on social networking, social media, citizen journalism, and blogging when she isn't online or writing.
"DrBarb" joined Twitter when it was only a few months old, and she was an early proponent of Twitter as a tool for journalists. A "midlife" journalist, Barbara was an interactive multimedia producer, before working in journalism.
A pioneering blogger, Iverson (currentbuzz.org) organized Chicago Blogger Meetups because it was the easiest way to study bloggers in their natural habitat. She has been a contributor to Poynter's E-Media Tidbits, VP for Technology for Association of Women Journalists(AWJ), and a mmeber of Media Bloggers Association (MBA,) and the Online News Association (ONA.)
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