Twitter journalism in Ireland: sourcing and trust in the age of social mediaFootnote^*

* An earlier version of this paper was originally published in the 2015 Proceedings of the International Conference on Social Media and Society: Heravi, B. R., Harrower, N., Sourcing and Trust: Twitter Journalism in Ireland, International Conference on Social Media and Society, Canada, September 2015.

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