This discussion was a cross over from issues discussed in courses on data journalism and discussions on finding credible sources in the age of twitter. The landscape has changed for journalists everywhere and will continue to do so. No longer is the rush to get the story first, but the challenging is wading through the glut of information that hits the main pages of the internet first and finding the truth of the big story from amongst the tangents or ‘pebbles’ that line the twitter stream.
FFFO has become a norm for newsrooms as stories constructed of initial reports are often flawed, filled with inaccuracies that only become evident over the passage of time. Examples from the reporting different crisis are often spoken about in the On the Media Podcast. Examples from 2017/18 include the reporting of Hurricane Irene in Puerto Rico and the protests in North Carolina.
https://www.wnyc.org/widgets/ondemand_player/wnycstudios/#file=/audio/json/818760/&share=1
This flawed information is quite often due to reporting unreliable sources from Twitter and facebook. As discussed in the lecture, time is one of the ingredients that allows for the increase of sources and an accurate picture to emerge. There is an issue with the increase of misinformation increasing with time also. This is one of the new problems that the modern citizen and journalist has to learn to sort through.
#Factcheck is on the increase.
In this article of the @ConversationEDU initiatives regarding factchecking around the world are mentioned as journalists seek to master the flow of misinformation https://t.co/05pT50Hr5J #BCM206
— Christina Donoghue (@cherokee_flower) October 17, 2018
This 2012 conference paper looks at credibility of tweets following the Fukushima disaster. Analysis points to first hand observers and other professionals having accurate info file:///Users/christinadonoghue/Downloads/Trusting_Tweets_The_Fukushima_Disaster_a.pdf #BCM206
— Christina Donoghue (@cherokee_flower) October 17, 2018
the blog that chris wrote 