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# Live tweeting Trump at the NYT
- URL: https://onemanandhisblog.com/2016/11/live-tweeting-trump-at-the-nyt/
- Published: 2016-11-23T23:06:50.000Z
- Updated: 2016-11-23T23:06:50.000Z
- Author: Adam Tinworth
- Tags: donald trump, Journalism, live coverage, livetweeting, new york times, Politics

[Alexandra Ma](https://twitter.com/alexandrama15?ref=onemanandhisblog.com), one of my current crop of Interactive Journalism students, looks at how the [*New York Times* live covered its meeting with Trump](http://www.interhacktives.com/2016/11/23/new-york-times-coverage-trumps-visit-shows-twitter-can-still-great/?ref=onemanandhisblog.com):

> But out of all the ways the Times covered the event, Twitter was by far the most effective.
> 
> The Times’ social media strategy editor, Michael Gold, created a public Twitter list of the journalists who had attended so people could follow — and instantly react to — direct quotes from the president-elect.

But that, in itself, brings some problems:

> The Times’ journalists mostly tweeted direct quotes from Trump, some of which — such as his suggestion that Stephen Bannon, his chief strategist and former editor of Breitbart News, was neither racist nor alt-right — seemed factually dubious and would be best accompanied with fact checking after the event.

The danger of immediacy is clearly lack of contextualisation – and that needs to be there.