Why Twitter will renew Journalism

June 28th, 2009 • all posts

Last week I spoke at the Insight Exchange’s Twitter’s Influence on Media and Journalism event in Sydney. You can find the full text of the speech on ZDNet.com.au.

In addition, we sent out the speech as a freely publishable commentary to a number of Australian media sites. I’m proud to say that both Mumbrella and Media Hunter published the speech.

The speech got a great reaction. A number of people linked to it, describing it as a must read and providing hope for the future of journalism. Of course, I also had my critics, who broadly described me as arrogant, an accusation I sometimes also level at myself ;)

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