The social media is booming, and is changing the news in the world. Twitter and Facebook reported earlier then CNN that Michael Jackson died or that in Iran is a revolution. The social media starts to be more faster and efficient then any other newspaper in the world.

The World Association of Newspapers is coordinating a campaign to demand compensation from Google and other search engines for unfairly exploiting newspaper, magazine and book publishers’s content, according to the Financial Times (via MediaBuyerPlanner).[1]

Today on Twitter you can find out news faster then on newspapers or TV.

Clay Shirky [2] has a great TED talk about how the social media is making history by helping citizens report the real news in the world. It’s a perfect TED talk after all the events happening this days in Iran and Moldova. I love how Shirky is showing us the history of news and how big is the social media today.

[1] http://www.marketingvox.com/

[2] Clay Shirky, author of Here Comes Everybody: The Power of Organizing Without Organizations