a brief history of online journalism

Mindy McAdams at Teaching Online Journalism wrote about a few milestones in online news coverage. After reading a CNN article called Tweeting the terror recently, I guess social media's influence on breaking stories is a hot topic.

With good reason.

How often do you find out about stories from people's blogs? Or your RSS feeds? And how often were you turned onto those feeds by people you know online?

It seems to me that social media isn't just changing the marketing world, or the way we connect with friends (old and new), it's changing the very nature of how we learn about and experience our world. And that includes news reporting and consumption.

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