![]() "It's essential, simply essential.”īulos said that he used WhatsApp in Syria to reach out to people since the WhatsApp number stays with the owner when they move to another country. "I use WhatsApp for reporting, whether to look up news channels that are sending alerts, or to contact people where internet connection is okay and phone lines are not, or whether to keep track of sources," Bulos told IJNet. Meanwhile, Nabih Bulos, staff foreign correspondent in the Middle East for the LA Times, said he uses WhatsApp in his reporting at least "50% of the time." I end up sending the questions on WhatsApp and get the answers back in text or voice," said Amjad Tadros, an Emmy-award winning journalist and CBS reporter in Amman, Jordan. "I use it a lot, especially in covering the news in Yemen as it is hard to get a clean phone line there. Many journalists use WhatsApp to interview sources using the voice memo feature, especially in locations where phone lines are unreliable. It has over 2.5 billion active users, and is one of the few apps that has been downloaded more than five billion times. One new trend that I have witnessed lately, especially in countries outside the U.S., is the rise of what I like to call "WhatsApp journalism."Ĭreated in 2009, WhatsApp is the most popular messaging service in over 100 countries. From filing news stories via fax to sending an email for the first time, to using Skype and Zoom for interviews, technology has changed news reporting significantly and rapidly. ![]() ![]() As a journalist who has been freelancing for almost 25 years, I have witnessed many changes in the news gathering process. ![]()
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