Reporting a Murder Trial Through Tweets

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By: Paul Kirby | Journal Register News Service

The words "I just shot him, I shot him" suddenly flashed on the computer screen's rolling storyline of a gang murder trial playing out in Ulster County Court.

The exclamation was a dramatic confession that Freeman reporter Patricia Doxsey probably would have, at one time, jotted in a rectangular notepad and kept for use hours later in the fashioning of a newspaper story.

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