June 11
Kristi Cheek has worked in Little Rock, Orlando and Dallas, but lives in Twitterville. When she needs original content for the 10 p.m. news at KOTV, she finds it on Twitter.
"I use it like they do police scanners (on the assignments desk). It's not just crime. It's not just fire. It's the world."
Kristi follows 1,222, mostly news sources, including reporters and producers in Oklahoma and all over the country. She also follows the Tulsa County Sheriff's Department and Midtown Tulsa Neighborhood Association.
She ran across video of a little black bear and called KDFW in Dallas to get the video put on the CBS newsfeed. She found out the bear had been caught in a trap in Oklahoma and taken to Dallas as a pet. Crazy cute video drove viewers into her cast, and she bingoed with the discovery of the state angle. An Oklahoma baby bear had been kidnapped.
Kristi also follows a group of Twitter producers, #AMnewser, friends she made across the country when she worked overnights producing the morning news. She also follows the Oklahoma Department of Transportation and EMSA (ambulance), and they Tweet often.
We also took a look at "Banjo" that aggregates stories from all over the country.
Kristi figures she averages two stories a day from Twitter, mostly stories the competition does not have.
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