Campaign Journalism in the Age of Twitter

Campaign Journalism in the Age of Twitter

A far younger campaign reporter now feeds a never-ending news cycle named Twitter.

Link: http://www.nytimes.com/2013/09/02/business/media/campaign-journalism-in-the-age-of-twitter.html?partner=rss&emc=rss&_r=0

Mr. Hamby suggested that politicians who came of age in the Twitter era — Gov. Chris Christie, Gov. Martin O’Malley, Senator Marco Rubio and others — will have an advantage over Hillary Rodham Clinton, who relies on a command-and-control approach in which information is carefully doled out and any journalistic offenders are disciplined.