Study: Journalists increasingly using social media as news source

I want someone to write a follow on story to this, with the headline or answering the question: How Do Journalists Know You’re A Dog On The Internet?

Dog, Incognito

“The fourth annual Digital Journalism Study, published by the Oriella PR network, polled 478 journalists from 15 countries and found that 47 per cent of them used Twitter as a source, up from just 33 per cent last year. The use of Facebook as a source went up to 35 per cent this year from 25 per cent in 2010… [and] an increasing number of journalists are turning to social media for verification, with a third using Twitter and a quarter Facebook.”

journalism.co.uk