For a few months now the BBC has been using liveblogging to report breaking news stories to the public. Making online news as fast as it can be published not counting video streams. Examples of them using this method can be seen with the Norway attacks and the British Tabloid hacking scandal. I think this form of reporting is fantastic, it is very quick, it is accurate, and I have found it frequently beats broadcast in reporting. It isn't just the BBC however, Reuter's liveblog of the Japan Tsunami was a fantastic source with reporters discussing the story with online commentators.
This feature is starting to show itself on other news websites such as CNN and the Guardian for breaking news, although in cruder forms. It's definitely the way forward for major news organisations perhaps even when publishing day-to-day stories. In the past few weeks the BBC has brought this in for its many sports news stories with Sportsday Live. In a way I think it competes with twitter and some people, myself included, will feel as if its more professional and more likely to be accurate. But that's another story for later.
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