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Of course, yeah.
So, I am here with Tom, is it Housden?
Housden, yeah.
From BBC news.
BBC news website.
And we're here at News Rewired. Tom, what are your thoughts on the event? What are you looking forward to and so on and so forth?
I think it's always good to get out and meet other people from the industry. I look forward to hearing what people have to say about, especially, the way community-based journalists use social media, something we're all trying to adapt to and shape our coverage into a sort of platform way in which people are interacting with news context.
Do you think that's kind of the future? I don't know. I think the key thing is, a lot that people don't know. I don't think the platforms, Twitter included, I'm reading about the way they're trying to monetize their business model.
Yeah.
I think there's a lot of questions mainly about how that progresses in person. I think, you know, something like Twitter, to me as a user, seems to be you have a lot of very hyper-connected metered individuals during using it heavily, but I'm not sure that that necessarily is something that's happening wider around the country.
I'm not sure about my sister living in the Northwest, which is, you know, works in a school. She is not someone who would be using news in the social media.
Yeah.
The media is very kind of, it's, you know, the media has bad to get successful things,
They'll be jumping on that as a Jumping on that. And I just wonder sometimes how I mean, it's a fascinating platform and it's for me following breaking news. I mean, most journalists now, we're following breaking news on Twitter.
I remember when the London riots were going on.
Absolutely.
And I was following that on Twitter rather than on the BBC, in conjunction kind of, you know.
Because, let's be honest. It was much faster.
It was a lot faster.
Obviously there's a lot of curating. That's another issue.
Yeah.
There's a lot of nonsense on there as well. You see there's the explosion of the sort of approved railway station.
All right.
And just looking on that, there's all kinds of sort of wilds. You know, terrorists late and speculate here. It just gets very... sorting through that. It's difficult.
Do you think maybe curation is going to be a stronger...like a more important topic for journalists? Would you say?
Possibly, I mean it always seems to come back to curation. It's typical, everything starts as a wild frontier, and then ends up becoming a bit more than what I expected. So, yeah. I don't know. I've done.
Yeah.
I'm as interested as anyone in Okay. Thanks.
Is that going to be on your web site?
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