5 Journalists in a Farmhouse

On the 1st February, 5 journalists went into a farmhouse in the South of France to discover if they could find reputable source of news. It is well reported that Twitter can be a great source of quick fire news and it can also give the latest news in times of disaster.

The RFP French-language public broadcasters association has set this experiment up to determine whether all you really need is a Facebook or Twitter account to release news to the masses. The five journalists that are taking part in this experiment are;

Benjamin Muller (France Info)

Nour-Eddine Zidane (France Inter)

Janic Tremblay (Première Chaîne de Radio-Canada)

Anne-Paule Martin (RSR, Switzerland)

Nicolas Willems (RTBF, Belgium)

These five journalists above have agreed to move into a farmhouse in the South of France for five days without any tools of the trade apart from Twitter and Facebook. They believe that with the help of over 400 million active users, they should be able to deliver some good news articles very well by just listening to what people are talking about.

I think that this is a brilliant test to find out how much Twitter and Facebook are used to talk about current news.

The results of the study are due to be released within the next couple of weeks, thus I will review what they release and my view of the study in due course.

So watch this space…..

Dave Stopher
SEO Programmer, SMO Specialist and Hosting Administrator