Twitter emerges as hero for Turkish reporters
Alexander Christie-Miller | The Christian Science Monitor | Jul 23, 2012
When Turkish journalist Serdar Akinan awoke last December to find his Twitter feed abuzz with rumors of a "massacre" in the country’s southeast, he naturally switched on the television. When he flicked through the channels and found nothing but the usual grind of daily news, he called his friends at the TV stations.
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