Kory's Korner

Journalism has seen a drastic change since the introduction of social media in world culture, mostly because news often breaks on social media before it ever hits news websites or television. For example, the recent NBA trades have almost all appeared on some form of social media before a formal new story could be written about them. This allows for around-the-clock consumption of the most up-to-date news, but this also allows for a bigger margin of error for these reports. Since these reports are often posted with minimal detailed information, there is a chance that the reports can become totally false in the coming hours/days. However, journalists who post on social media first do have a bit of an advantage, as they can also rework these social media posts into long-form news stories for television or online news websites. Posting on social media before anything else guarantees a journalist has their story out in the world and offers them a greater opportunity to do further reporting on it for other news sources.

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