Social media in natural disasters – the Queensland experience

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15 August 2011Opening with a discussion about the best of journalism exposing the worst of journalism, Anna Bligh focuses on the role that social media, used by the police and state and local governments, played during the floods and cyclones in Queensland last summer.

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