Who needs old-fashioned news agencies ? Graduate journalism students in Chicago have set up "Breaking Tweets", which tries to assemble Twitter messages into themes and news stories..
Found through journalism.co.uk
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A friend whose machine blocked a post writes "Not sure of the exact details ...butjournalism students at Falmouth are using Twitter as a "mass alert" system in certain stories e.g. court cases ... where one Tweet can alert all in the newsroom of a result rather than having to phone a particular person or desk - which may or may not be unmanned"
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