Boston Globe Creates a Twitter Board for the Newsroom
Nieman Journalism Lab, August 3, 2011
By Justin Ellis
There once was a time when one of the major components of newsrooms was the Teletype machine, a novel technology that delivered dispatches from the tiniest reaches of the United States and the farthest corners of the globe. Newsrooms outgrew the technology, or at least grew into newer, faster technologies, like Twitter. Which could explain why the Boston Globe newsroom now has a funky bank of monitors that displays tweets throughout the day, as well as headlines from their websites.
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