Kudos to BBC News for thinking about how Twitter fits into breaking news coverage | The 21st Century | Scoop.it
From www.poynter.org (via @Drewforward) - February 11, 2012 7:29 AM

The bigger, more difficult question is how Twitter figures into breaking news coverage. This is part of a larger problem: Many newsrooms don’t have a comprehensive, chronological plan for how to respond to breaking news. The issue is editorial workflow, not platform ideology.