Earlier today I was going through a topic by Kelvin Bakhurst on twitter, “How broadcasting media has changed the newsroom works.” The full transcript was a knowledgeable occurrence for me. It was a new experience as a blogger.
Like all major news providers have been transformed by technology and the opportunities it has offered over the last 20 or so years, social media is the latest tectonic plate to move and change the landscape. It may seem like re-stating the obvious but looking in their rearview mirror back along the road of technological change shows just how news has changed: typewriters out, computers in; newspaper cuttings libraries closed as the internet opened access to information; mobile phones rather than messages at hotel receptions; satellite technology to feed material rather than tapes put on planes and so on.
Powered by these changes, news has become a 24 hours a day phenomenon;....
