Imagine my surprise when I started my university degree, only to find that the internet had become much more than a potential note on my reference list - in time I would come to rely on it.
Journalism is changing in a similar way now. A few years ago it would be a ridiculous suggestion to source your info for a story from a forum or other social, interactive platform.
As more journalists sign up to twitter it is rapidly becoming a platform for interaction, confirmation and sourcing of information.
On 23 August anchor of ABC1's 7:30 Report Leigh Sales tweeted -
"Does anyone know if #Qantas is still releasing its full year results on Aug 24? Tomorrow?"
To which another journalist John O'Doherty, a Ten News journalist, replied and 're-tweeted' -
'Yes, they are"
These tweets occurred at around 7:00pm and half an hour later Sales talked about Qantas on the 7:30 Report. Whether Sales took O'Doherty's word for it, or simply used it as a platform for further investigation it certainly shows how sourcing information for journalists is rapidly changing.
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