November 1st, 2012
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I use Twitter mostly to get the word out, especially when it’s a really intense situation where news is breaking by the minute or second, and a lot of people are working on a story. I use Twitter to get information out fast. It’s faster to get it out on Twitter than our website first. That’s how I use it. But the flip side is to not go too quickly and not before you have it verified like you would for the website.

Monday Q&A: Pulitzer-winner Sara Ganim on working the crime beat in the digital age » Nieman Journalism Lab

Sara Ganim discusses how social media and changes in technology impact her crime reporting. For more on this, check out the ONA12 session featuring Laura Amico, co-founder and editor of Homicide Watch DC, and Juana Summers, political reporter at Politico, where they examined issues that beat reporters face and how journalists can use digital technologies to respond to the 24-hour news cycle. 

(Source: niemanlab.org)

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