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Beckett and Lumby explore the impact of social media on journalism. In particular they address the use of Twitter to convey news information at extraordinary speed, while advancing news events — or ‘stories’ — in real time. Beckett and Lumby analyse the various challenges confronting journalism in the age of ‘the news that never sleeps’.
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Beckett, J., Lumby, C. (2014). Reading and Writing the News in the Fifth Estate. In: Potts, J. (eds) The Future of Writing. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137440402_10
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