War Journalism, In 140 Characters Or Less

Hour 2:           How have newsgathering and reporting changed with the immediacy of social media? We’ll talk this hour with Andy Carvin, senior strategist for NPR, about his use of Twitter to report on the Middle East. Carvin’s new book is “Distant Witness: Social Media the Arab Spring and a Journalism Revolution” (CUNY Journalism Press, 2013).