Journalists mining for stories
It used to be that news came directly from the sources, or from hard research on the field. This isn’t to say that reporters and mass media outlets don’t rely on these same tactics anymore or that we are lazy when it comes to our research, but it can definitely be said that the process of mining for stories has become much easier. In fact, for this article we tweeted the question: “How has technology made you lazy?” and are even using some of your responses in this post!