The problem that I have is that even ‘professional’ news organizations make mistakes and don’t always report the real news (eg: Canwest Global Communications’s report on Lightfoot). We put trust in these outlets and they aren’t always right.
What I’m suggesting is that if more than one people report on something via social media(not just relaying news but creating their own on the same topic), then it could be seen as confirmed, and real news. Just my ideas though, nothing more.

The problem that I have is that even ‘professional’ news organizations make mistakes and don’t always report the real news (eg: Canwest Global Communications’s report on Lightfoot). We put trust in these outlets and they aren’t always right.
What I’m suggesting is that if more than one people report on something via social media(not just relaying news but creating their own on the same topic), then it could be seen as confirmed, and real news. Just my ideas though, nothing more.

I agree with you on the LondonTopic thought. It lacked a community involvement, and really was just another basic online news source.
I also agree that Tweets are too short to be a full news story. We just need to figure out a way to take instant news messages (from whatever source) and create real news out of it.
Maybe this involves taking tweets, based on a common hashtag and compiling news from them, but keeping the ongoing real-time news as well.
Its a tough road to go down, but I do believe this is the future. Someone just has to figure out how to make it work.
Thanks for the comments!

I agree with you on the LondonTopic thought. It lacked a community involvement, and really was just another basic online news source.
I also agree that Tweets are too short to be a full news story. We just need to figure out a way to take instant news messages (from whatever source) and create real news out of it.
Maybe this involves taking tweets, based on a common hashtag and compiling news from them, but keeping the ongoing real-time news as well.
Its a tough road to go down, but I do believe this is the future. Someone just has to figure out how to make it work.
Thanks for the comments!

I think/hope that this isn’t the end of local news but rather the end of news sites that try to replicate what other brands/media outlets already do. That was one of the big issues with the site – it didn’t specifically provide anything that I couldn’t already find anywhere else. Like it or not, the Free Press has a longstanding presence in London and LondonTopic just seemed to provide the same thing.

There is a void in London and it can’t be replaced by Tweets. Tweets are two short to provide anything beyond a sound-bite and often when stories link to blog posts, the posts lack any kind of journalistic standards (my own perhaps included.) But, in my opinion, we still need to have access to in-depth coverage of local issues of importance. LondonTopic didn’t really provide that either. For instance, where are deeper discussions of local policy decisions?

I think Social Media will play a key role in these new forms of media but really hope we’re not dumbing it down too much! btw – Great post!

I think/hope that this isn’t the end of local news but rather the end of news sites that try to replicate what other brands/media outlets already do. That was one of the big issues with the site – it didn’t specifically provide anything that I couldn’t already find anywhere else. Like it or not, the Free Press has a longstanding presence in London and LondonTopic just seemed to provide the same thing.

There is a void in London and it can’t be replaced by Tweets. Tweets are two short to provide anything beyond a sound-bite and often when stories link to blog posts, the posts lack any kind of journalistic standards (my own perhaps included.) But, in my opinion, we still need to have access to in-depth coverage of local issues of importance. LondonTopic didn’t really provide that either. For instance, where are deeper discussions of local policy decisions?

I think Social Media will play a key role in these new forms of media but really hope we’re not dumbing it down too much! btw – Great post!