CBC radio doc explores news in age of social media

Documentary producer Ira Basen created a two-part series called News 2.0: The Future of News in an Age of Social Media on “where the news business is going, now that it’s everybody’s business.”

Part one
aired on the Sunday Edition, CBC Radio 1 on June 21 and the second part will air June 28 at 10 am.

LISTEN to a clip from News 2.0: The Future of News in an Age of Social Media.

In this clip Basen interviews Jeff Jarvis, author of What Would Google Do? Jarvis is associate professor and director of the interactive journalism program at the City University of New York’s new Graduate School of Journalism. He blogs at Buzzmachine.

He discussed with Ira how mistakes are  treated in news 1.0 and news 2.0.