Poynter Podcast: Tips for Verifying Tweets; Are E-Mail Breaking News Alerts Obsolete?

By Jill Geisler
In today's podcast:

• Twitterjournalism.com offers primer on verifying tweets.
• OJR writer says e-mail notifications of breaking news should be retired in favor of Twitter. I offer another perspective.
• Fast Company asks: "Is the New iPhone 3G S Speeding Citizen Journalism Forward?"
  
• Poynter uses iPhone as quick teaching workaround at NAHJ when other tools fail. Here's the video.
• Teresa Wiltz remembers the journalistic challenge of "Chasing Michael Jackson."
  
  

In Poynter's daily podcast, sponsored by The City University of New York Graduate School of Journalism, faculty member (and veteran broadcast journalist) Jill Geisler curates news about media -- broadcast, print, online. The podcast looks at developments in journalism, technology and business.

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