James Mitchell

"Ironically then, it seems that microblogging is a return to actual reporting of fast moving events, while the other pieces are analysis or comment that have become confused/synonymous with journalism only in the last couple of decades. Journalism has come home to the future, and it matches perfectly the emerging online set-up: live text is to Twitter as analysis/comment is to blogs."

"The Guardian is also putting a lot of emphasis on video and has already invested more than £1million. A dish on the roof ensures the newspaper receives a raw, live Reuters feed that the newsroom can then edit to produce short news clips. When the newspaper struck the deal in September, just two news companies in Europe were doing something similar."