Information hierarchy: The news pyramid in the social media age
media 2.0 | (5)
Credibility and trust are the key issues in today's information(overload) age where news emanates from multiple sources, including sources other than journalists. More so than ever, news is also real-time and unrelenting: there's lots of it.
Here, below, I created this pyramid which helps demonstrate news hierarchy and flow in the social media age. It proposes that journalists have an important role to play as interpreters, fact checkers and guardians of accuracy in this new paradigm of fast, unrelenting, real-time information. It suggests that media's value lies decreasingly in being first with a story, because for breaking news stories they'll mostly be beaten ...
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