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    The feed itself was a mix of original content reported by The Statesman and an aggregation of other sources and information, something Quigley endorses. "It was about 50-50 [between the two] ... I'm a big believer in aggregating the news to provide a complete report. I was posting information from various sources, including from our own reporters, from the Associated Press, from what I was hearing on TV, from tweets from inside Fort Hood that I found on Twitter Search and by retweeting other news sources' Twitter accounts." Quigley said The Statesman sent several reporters to Fort Hood to get details from the scene. Full Article at E-media Tidbits
    It was about 50-50 [between the two] ... I'm a big believer in aggregating the news to provide a complete report. I was posting information from various sources, including from our own reporters, from the Associated Press, from what I was hearing on TV, from tweets from inside Fort Hood that I found on Twitter Search and by retweeting other news sources' Twitter accounts.
    SOURCE: E-media Tidbits 3 weeks ago
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Fort Hood Shooting Shows How Twitter, Lists Can be Used for Breaking News
  1. They can dip in, see everything they want and dip back out. Or they can follow every tweet we send and get all the news. Since I was trying to provide everything possible, including from competing news sources, blogs, retweets, and live tweets from news conferences, you really could get a complete pictu...
    SOURCE: E-media Tidbits 3 weeks ago
  2. The biggest problem I've seen with Twitter and news remains identifying valuable signal among the noise, and the very limited window you have to look back and try to figure out the primary witnesses
    SOURCE: E-media Tidbits 3 weeks ago
  3. It's important for news organizations to have Twitter modules, like we've created and The Huffington Post has created ... The lists are good but it's better to put it into a module right on your Web site so readers can see the tweets. You need to give readers as many ways as possible to get the informat...
    SOURCE: E-media Tidbits 3 weeks ago
  4. We've been working on lists for the last few weeks ... Our journalists have been creating them based on their beats, and we have said one of our goals is to create lists off the news, like for breaking news.
    SOURCE: E-media Tidbits 3 weeks ago
  5. It's an opportunity to deliver information in real-time to your readers
    SOURCE: E-media Tidbits 3 weeks ago
  6. It's not just the lists, it's the information within the lists that we're delivering.
    SOURCE: E-media Tidbits 3 weeks ago
  7. Twitter and our blog were the only way we could get our news out during that time ... That just shows the value of social media, and Twitter in particular, as a journalistic tool.
    SOURCE: E-media Tidbits 3 weeks ago
  8. We just started running with it from there
    SOURCE: E-media Tidbits 3 weeks ago
  9. The best way to serve readers [for a story like this] is to give them coverage from local sources ... Local, local, local. You want people as close as possible.
    SOURCE: E-media Tidbits 3 weeks ago

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