Category: Features

  • Is Twitter-based journalism the past or the future?

    Canadian experts and students weigh in on using the app post-acquisition By: Alina Jaffer Since its mobilization in the 2008 United States presidential campaign, Twitter became the ultimate multi-purpose tool for journalists. Reporters routinely use the platform as a means of outreaching, networking, reporting and promoting. Citizen journalists famously tweeted their way through the Arab…