Social Media & the Haiti Disaster: The Transformation of Luke Renner
NBC Today news anchor Ann Curry described the Twitter-fueled transition of Luke Renner from a humanitarian into a virtual journalist in the aftermath of Haiti’s devastating earthquake during the Social Media & the Haiti Disaster panel at The New York Times Building in New York, part of Social Media Week 2010.
Curry told of learning what had happened in Haiti, and sharing news of the quake via Twitter, and then said, “Within minutes, I had a DM from a guy named Luke who identified himself as a humanitarian and said, ‘Yeah, I’m in Haiti, here’s my number.'”
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