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Thoughts from #1pound40: Can Twitter curate journalism?

Last week Journalism.co.uk attended Reuters and Amplified’s #1pound40 conference. More details on the event at this link – but essentially a series of discussion on the impact and potential for social media in journalism and politics.

@documentally aka Christian Payne was hopping from table to table capturing audio of the discussion which he kindly shared using Audioboo.

Below is his ‘boo’ featuring @radiokate, @priyal, @dan_10v11 and more in response to the question posed to the delegates: can Twitter curate journalism?

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And Documentally’s ‘boo’ with BBC director of global news Richard Sambrook, where the pair discuss how ‘unconferences’ work and the interplay between liveblogging, Twittering and reporting events:

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