VELOCITY IS THE NEWS AND MOBILE IS THE NEW FRONTIER

Peter VerweijSchool of Journalism, Utrecht, the

Netherlands Moscow, November 11-14, 2010

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First Newspaper

Electric Telegraph

Plane Crash

Grahamstown South Africa

Mobile connection 1

Mobile connections 2

Wireless carrier-pigeons

• Smart phones are becoming the new medium to retrieve news

• And a tool for mobile reporting• And could create new business models for

newspaper

Flat Earth Newshttp://www.humedia.nl/profiles/blogs/nick-davies-over

Twitter as a News Source

• Live Reporting• Fast breaking news• Alert system• Problem: credibility• Wisdom of the crowds

Twitter Networks: Politician and Journalists

Professionalism

• Fast and slow news• From closed to open media• From we-media to me-media• From institution based journalism to network

journalism• Individualism and the Public Sphere• Cooperation between new and old media

Thank you very much!

• peter.verweij@hu.nl