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The Connected Newsroom
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The Connected Newsroom
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ABSTRACT
In this book, I have explored how journalists use social media to produce and disseminate news content. I have looked into the redefinition of journalistic norms and practices such as impartiality and verification. I have also focused on how BBC journalists observe, shape, and articulate new technologies in their daily practices. Since the London bombing attacks on 7 July 2005, the scale and the extent to which journalists have used social media in crisis reporting have increased exponentially. Since 7/7, social media have changed BBC journalistic practices and norms, structures of the newsroom, and discourse regarding reporting of crisis events. BBC journalists have learned to use Twitter, Facebook, and other social networks to report stories such as the 2008 Mumbai attacks, the 2009 Iranian Elections, and the 2011 Tunisian uprisings. The emergence of social media in news production has thus influenced the nature and representation in the news of global crisis reporting. Since the London bombing attacks of 2005, BBC journalism has experienced substantial transformations. And the incorporation of social media into BBC journalism has been crafted around existing journalistic practices and norms.