Even in the most unlikely places online journalism is still just as, if not more, effective.
Sally Sara is the ABC's Afghanistan correspondent, widely recognisable due to her numerous reports from the conflict stricken country on the ABC's 7:00 news. Her reports are always amazing due to her proximity to the extreme events she is covering, but some parts of her reporting are even more amazing.
Ms Sara is a savvy user of Twitter and regularly updates on events as they unfold. Her tweets are always right in the middle of the action and I often imagine what she must be feeling as these events unravel around her while she is calmly tweeting back to her followers in Australia.
"Some sporadic shots going over us", that's certainly not a tweet you read every day.
On August 9 she tweeted "Woken by incoming fire this morning"
Not only does Ms Sara tweet these updates, they are often accompanied by video or other links. If she can report the news in these kinds of situations and still manage to not only update twitter but coordinate other forms of news media as well, I can't see that anyone else has any excuse to not utlise online journalism.
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