How the referendum was reported: Newspapers rely on the web as declaration misses first editions
PRCA director general Francis Ingham examines how news outlets north and south of the border told the story of the Scottish independence referendum outcome.
In the days when newspapers relied on trees rather than computer screens to do their job, their coverage of last night’s result would have been necessarily limited and vague –unless they’d gone down the Dewey-Truman route of course. And we all know how that worked out for the Chicago Tribune…
The front pages today are dominated by the predictable message ‘Scotland speaks’; ‘Scotland decides’. Without of course saying what that decision has been. And also by the Read full story ›
Source: The Drum
