“What really stands out is the range of sources, voices and angles to be looked into. There’s no hierarchy: everything’s on merit, and there is of course a new set of challenges for our staff – chiefly editorial challenges, as well as a kind of chase as social media services appear and disappear in what The Times’ Judith Evans describes as “an electronic game of cat and mouse”.

I’ve written here before about our use of Twitter in another context, and spoke then about the need for us (BBC News) to exercise care and to check information before publishing it as fact – and that remains true. We’ll check anything we want to include in our account of what is actually happening. But we also want to link what we do with the flow of discussion, links, rumours and reports which is providing another channel for people following the story. ”

http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/theeditors/2009/06/social_media_in_iran.html

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