Tag: JOURNALIST

During the five months that he was held captive by Islamic militants in Afghanistan, Japanese journalist Kosuke Tsuneoka never thought he'd ever see his friends or family again. Now, however, he's finally back home -- thanks, in part, to Twitter. As the AP reports, Tsuneoka recently seized a golden opportunity to communicate with the outside world, when one of his captors asked him how to use ...

Those French journalists who locked themselves in a farmhouse, with only Facebook and Twitter as links to the outside world, have emerged from their self-imposed exile. What did they learn from their social networking experiment? Janic Tremblay, a reporter with Radio Canada, talked with NPR about the experience. "You are - if I may say - who you follow," Tremblay told NPR. In other words, ...

We've all heard stories about how social networking sites are the newest and most reliable way to break news. But just how true is this claim? That's the question that a group of five European journalists hope to answer. According to AFP, these journalists will lock themselves in a French farmhouse for five days, beginning February 1st, and limit their communications with the outside world to ...