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This is the blog of Julie Starr. I write about the news business and consult on newsroom integration and change projects.
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* Newsroom change management and web-and-print development for Fairfax Media NZ.
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Treat social networks like any source: with measured skepticism
A few big names got caught out not long ago using quotes from a Facebook profile purported to belong to Benazir Bhutto's son. The profile was a fake, although it turns out her son did have a profile but clearly one which reporters didn't stumble upon.
Posted in Journalism Also tagged attribution, editors, facebook, Social Media, sources Leave a comment
Reporters using Facebook: good idea but don’t take anything at face value
Shane Richmond, Communities Editor at the Telegraph, brings a few notes of common sense and caution to his advice on how reporters can use Facebook.
The moral of this *fake* story is: check
your sources