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Tools that became news platforms. This story is about more than what is happening in one small town in the Mississippi Valley in the heat of the night that has tempers and twitter boiling over. It goes right to the core of racial conflict and social divisions in america and the way that those issues are reported. Our starting point this week is ferguson, missouri. Its no longer a 24 hour news cycle. Its a 24 second news cycle. A technological eyewitness to history. From the moment the first couple of tweets hit and once you reach that first 25,000, it quickly turns into four million or whateve...

More like the orders are coming from beijing. This is a heat map of activity on twitter for a new story thats gone global. This particular story has been trending in a big way in the u. S. But there is plenty of interest and output all around the world. How did ferguson, missouri, population 21,000 become a global dateline . The killing of a black teenager, Michael Brown on august 9th by a white policeman triggered protests and showdowns with a police force that seemed particularly well armed, remarkably well equipped. The sight of Small Town Police looking like an army have peas wondering why...

More like the orders are coming from beijing. This is a heat map of activity on twitter for a new story thats gone global. This particular story has been trending in a big way in the u. S. But there is plenty of interest and output all around the world. How did ferguson, missouri, population 21,000 become a global dateline . The killing of a black teenager, Michael Brown on august 9th by a white policeman triggered protests and showdowns with a police force that seemed particularly well armed, remarkably well equipped. The sight of Small Town Police looking like an army have peas wondering why...

Folded them into a programme for a medley of media related stories. 2014 will be remembered as the year hong kong erupted with prodemocracy contest. We have the story on hong kong and political clashes in beijing. Three of spains biggest papers had new editors. We have that story we explore a noisy place in the world of journalism, the online comments sections, known as the home of the trolls. And we examine the output of the news media in japan, since the disaster of the Fukushima Nuclear plant and starting with Nick Muirhead from tunis with a look at tunisias most revolutionary news media. E...

Isil fighters have take he en over more territory in iraqs Anbar Province they have captured a village 12kilometers west of romadi in fighting overnight. The head of the Governors Council there has called for help from baghdad, thats where we are crossing live to now our coned end is standing by, what more can you tell us about the fighting in romadi . Reporter well, its part of whats happening across anbar inning fortunately. Thats the Western Province of iraq thats the countrys businessest province. And its an isil strong hold. Just one village close to ramadi, but its important because its ...