At Thursday's "Using New Media to Keep Up With the Changing Times," professional journalists from the Austin-American Statesman and the Texas Tribune spoke to Texas State students as part of the university's annual Mass Communication Week.
I really enjoyed hearing from these journalists because they provided a lot of hope when it comes to story-telling in the future. Having sites like Twitter and Facebook can really be an advantage to a newsroom when it comes to getting information out quickly to a mass audience.
The speakers present were Robert Quigley, social media director at the Austin-American Statesman; David Doolittle, internet editor at the statesman and Elise Hu, reporter for the Texas Tribune.
The panelists agreed that social media is likely to change (mentioning Google Wave), but that micro-bloging is likely here to stay. As journalists, it is important for us to keep up with and stay in tune with the new social media that come out, finding new ways to use them effectively.
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