Lillo Montalto Monella is a digital journalist, multimedia blogger, photo reporter and expert in multi-platform blogging. At ScribbleLive, he works as client success manager and syndication evangelist for the biggest editorial groups in Europe (ie, he teaches people liveblogging, best liveblogging practices, user-generated content, digital journalism, social media, real-time content, live publishing, audience engagement, real-time content syndication etc. etc. in English/Spanish/Italian).
The explosion of social media has had the effect of reducing the attention span of readers, who in turn are ever hungrier for real time news. Given the lack of resources, traditional newsrooms have ...