Today I listened to:
BBC Radio Scotland: Old Hack, New Tricks
"Newsgathering is not what it used to be. Once upon a time newspaper journalists used to find their stories by getting out and about, pounding the streets, knocking on doors, and getting tip offs from ordinary people. Now they sit in offices peering at computer terminals. But which method delivers the best stories?"
It was good to hear from Jim Rougvie again (an old colleague from my Dundee Courier days), although I thought the young BBC lad was in for a bit of an unfair fight. Jim's an old hand but the BBC lad wasn't just less experienced at newsgathering, he didn't seem to know his way around the Internet either. There's more to Internet newsgathering than a few tweets and a glance at the council website.
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