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# Reddit as a journalistic liveblogging platform
- URL: https://onemanandhisblog.com/2014/02/reddit_as_a_journalistic_liveblogging_pl/
- Published: 2014-02-26T17:14:50.000Z
- Updated: 2015-04-08T16:12:02.000Z
- Author: Adam Tinworth
- Tags: Journalism, liveblogging, reddit

This is a really interesting development: Reddit is working to facilitate [journalistic liveblogging activity](http://gigaom.com/2014/02/25/reddit-embraces-its-role-as-a-journalistic-entity-with-new-live-reporting-feature/?ref=onemanandhisblog.com) on the site.

> \[Reddit has…\] become a place where new forms of journalism occur, such as the reporting on breaking news events like a shooting or the war in Syria. To help make that even easier, Reddit has launched a “live blogging”-style feature that will eventually allow anyone to function as a kind of Reddit-based news reporter.

Reddit is quietly becoming a powerhouse for in-the-moment journalism. Not bad for the site that everyone wrote off as “the one that lost to Digg” seven years ago…