One of the landmarks in the birth of the digital bush telegraph is the story of how moneylife.in, the financial and news website, handled the news that the first citizen of the land, President Pratibha Patil, illegally got large tract of army land in Pune for a palatial retirement home
It could be called the next step in the evolution of journalism; or, to make it dramatic, the birth of "the digital bush telegraph". It was a serendipitous development that makes journalism stronger, more effective and helps journalists quickly reach a large readership, even larger than the biggest publication of the mainstream media.
The new journalism combines the virtues of the old with the technological advantages of the new digital "social media". It is mix of the persistent search for hard facts, impeccable sourcing from, for example, the Right to Information (RTI) Act, strong but straight-forward writing and courageous editorship that plays up the story on Web news sites. Now comes the new part, master stroke-put up the story on Facebook and post the headline and the link on Twitter.
One of the landmarks in the birth of the digital bush telegraph (remember the Phantom comics where messages are sent vast distances using large musical drums?) is the story of how moneylife.in, the financial and news website, handled the news that the first citizen of the land, President Pratibha Patil, illegally got large tract of army land in Pune for a palatial retirement home. The website and a companion print magazine are edited by Debashis Basu and his wife Sucheta Dalal, the lady who broke the Harshad Mehta stock scam 20 years ago. Within 16 days, the President admitted her error and returned the land to the army.
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http://www.livemint.com/2012/05/17221614/The-house-that-Pratibha-Patil.html?atype=tp
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