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Lyse Doucet
is the BBC's chief international correspondent and also presenter of BBC World News and World Service Newshour. Twitter: @bbclysedoucet
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Does our audience still need us? The TV news reporter in the age of social media
It used to be so much simpler. Remember those good old golden days of newsgathering? Thirty years ago when I started reporting for the BBC in West Africa, we typed our news copy on clattering telex machines, hand-carried TV tapes to London, and used a mutter box.