Is Twitter Helping or Harming Political Journalism?

During this year's U.S. presidential election, it wasn't uncommon for political journalists to watch the debates with two, maybe three computer screens, a mobile device ready for push notifications and, of course, a social dashboard scrolling in the background.

These reporters tweeted, shared, GIF-ed and memed throughout the election, but were they helping or harming themselves?

Because of the speed and constant feed of information, social networks like Twitter have forced journalists to become more witty, critical and generally more interesting in their writing, to compensate for readers who had already already consumed that information via social.

Kerry Lauman, editor-in-ch…
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