At the New Media Asia 2011 conference, I presented my research paper from my Asia Journalism Fellowship stint, looking into the role of social media and its impact in journalism.

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3. New(s) Alternative:Social media in Journalism By NIKI CHEONG nikicheong@gmail.com@nikicheongwww.nikicheong.com

4. Need for speed.

5. ‘Scooping’ is not enough.

6. Social Media 1.*?

9. Alerts – Twitter + news apps via push

12. Citizen Journalism Access Control Volume Space Dissemination

13. Mediactive “Most of us will never be journalist.” - Dan Gillmor “Media 3.0” has “radically democratized media”. “Tomorrow’s media will be more diverse, by far, than today’s.” “Bedrock journalistic principles.”

14. The Social Journalist

16. Control

17. Volume

18. Space

19. DisseminationPhoto credit: www.yawningbread.org

20. The Fourth Estate “… yonder, there sits the fourth estate more important far than they all.” - Thomas Carlyse, quoting Edmund Burke

21. New(s) Alternative:Social media in Journalism By NIKI CHEONG nikicheong@gmail.com@nikicheongwww.nikicheong.com