{"id":4219,"date":"2009-01-30T19:08:05","date_gmt":"2009-01-30T23:08:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mathewingram.com\/work\/?p=4219"},"modified":"2009-01-30T19:08:05","modified_gmt":"2009-01-30T23:08:05","slug":"reuters-an-editor-in-chief-twitters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/2009\/01\/30\/reuters-an-editor-in-chief-twitters\/","title":{"rendered":"Reuters: An editor-in-chief Twitters"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>David Schlesinger, the editor-in-chief of Reuters News, has a fascinating post up at his blog, <em>Full Disclosure<\/em> &#8212; a fitting title, given the topic of the post. Schlesinger <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.reuters.com\/fulldisclosure\/2009\/01\/30\/twittering-away-standards-or-tweeting-the-future-of-journalism\">writes about<\/a> how he has been Twittering from the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland and how his Twitter messages (or &#8220;tweets,&#8221; as people insist on calling them) actually beat his own wire service, as described in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.alleyinsider.com\/2009\/1\/reuters-scoops-itself-by-twittering-from-davos\">a post<\/a> at Silicon Alley Insider. The news? That billionaire financier George Soros believes the current economic downturn could be worse than the Great Depression, and that as much as $15-trillion might be needed to save the banking system.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>As Schlesinger notes in the post, people have raised a number of issues about this practice, including:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Is it journalism?<\/p>\n<p>Is it dangerous?<\/p>\n<p>Is it embarrassing that my tweets even beat the Reuters newswire?<\/p>\n<p>Am I destroying Reuters standards by encouraging tweeting or blogging?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>to which he says he answers: &#8220;Yes, Potentially, No and No.&#8221; In <a href=\"http:\/\/www.alleyinsider.com\/2009\/1\/reuters-scoops-itself-by-twittering-from-davos\/page\/1#comment-498178ee14b9b9ae0058ff2c\">a comment<\/a> on the Silicon Alley Insider post, he continues:<\/p>\n<p><i>(read the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.niemanlab.org\/2009\/01\/reuters-an-editor-in-chief-twitters\/#more-1495\">rest of this post<\/a> at the Nieman Journalism Lab blog)<\/i><\/p>\n<div class=\"syndication-links\"><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>David Schlesinger, the editor-in-chief of Reuters News, has a fascinating post up at his blog, Full Disclosure &#8212; a fitting title, given the topic of the post. Schlesinger writes about how he has been Twittering from the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland and how his Twitter messages (or &#8220;tweets,&#8221; as people insist on calling &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/2009\/01\/30\/reuters-an-editor-in-chief-twitters\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Reuters: An editor-in-chief Twitters&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_crsspst_to_mathewingramblogwordpresscom":false,"mf2_syndication":[],"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4219","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4219","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4219"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4219\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4219"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4219"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4219"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}