Ever since Julius Reuter strapped his first market report to a carrier pigeon, reporters of every stripe have lived or died by being first with the facts.
Yet in recent years, the news agenda has started to move even more rapidly, to the point where it is whirling faster than ever — part of a wider speeding up of society, driven by technology, that I call “the great acceleration.”
It is no longer enough for journalists to gather information for the next day’s paper: instead, stories develop in real time, with the initial release of the information (usually on Twitter) being followed …read more
Source: European Voice
