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Alastair Reid
Managing editor of First Draft. Twitter: @ajreid
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Journalists who ‘harass’ eyewitnesses on social media risk public backlash
When a big story breaks, eyewitnesses can face hundreds of approaches from journalists on social media. Now social media users in general are responding negatively as they observe the torrents of requests for contact. It could be time for the news media to change tactics.