Truth in the Age of Twitter
Matthew Winkler
WHEN
Wednesday | 22 Mar, 12:00 PM
WHERE
238 HRCB
Wednesday | 22 Mar, 12:00 PM
WHERE
238 HRCB
Social media has been used to report on and promote news for years now, but in this tech-savvy age of journalism, how can we know if what we see on Twitter is true? And perhaps more importantly, how can we keep up with the twenty-four-hours news cycle while staying as accurate as possible?
Matthew Winkler is editor-in-chief emeritus of Bloomberg News, the global news service he founded with Michael Bloomberg in 1990, when he joined the then eight-year-old financial information company Bloomberg L.P. Today, Bloomberg News, which includes 2,500 editors and reporters in 150 bureaus serving print and broadcast media throughout North and South America, Europe, and Asia, produces more than 5,000 stories daily on the economy, companies, governments, financial and commodity markets as well the arts and sports. Bloomberg News under Winkler’s leadership received more than 800 awards, including the Pulitzer Prize for Explanatory Reporting.
