Joey Kulkin - 10,000 Words http://www.mediabistro.com/10000words Where Journalism and Technology Meet Copyright 2013 Thu, 23 May 2013 16:08:52 +0000 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.1 How To Use Google+ For Breaking News Google+ is the newest social media network on the block and, as we chronicled last week, there’s a lot of innovative ways it can help a reporter with their individual beat. But what about when it comes to breaking news, when the whole news team is helping cover a story?

Twitter and Facebook are well established as invaluable tools when it comes to sharing news at a moment’s notice but Google+ has gone untested — until last week. While covering an apartment shooting, the staff at the New Jersey-based paper the Trentonian was able to land a key source and very important information through Google+. continued…

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]]> Elana Zak http://www.mediabistro.com/10000words/how-to-use-google-for-breaking-news_b5408#disqus_thread http://www.mediabistro.com/10000words/how-to-use-google-for-breaking-news_b5408 http://www.mediabistro.com/10000words/?p=5408 Mon, 18 Jul 2011 15:13:49 +0000