WRITE - Reddit + Boston: Journalism gets better when more people are doing it

We've already talked about how Twitter has changed the way that real-time journalism functions during news events like the Boston bombings, by taking all the editorial activity that usually happens behind the scenes in newsrooms - the speculation, the fact-checking, and so on - and pushing it out into the open where anyone can take part in it. But it's not just Twitter, of course: as we've seen this week, other social platforms like Reddit are al ...

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