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BuzzFeed: Reinventing the wire story

BuzzFeed Editor in Chief Ben Smith says the idea of the "wire story" needs to be reworked in the era of social media. The old model, where wire stories run 2-8 paragraphs with varying degrees of fresh reporting, doesn’t work when people are exposed to so much information on a continued basis, Smith said. Journalists have to be more creative in the ways they deliver vital information. Original Story

source: Nieman Journalism Lab

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