Maria Shriver says journalists should pause and double-check before publishing

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"Let's get this up. Let's get it up now. Wait Wait a minute, should we get it up now? Do I really need to send that text? Do I really need to respond from that place? Do I really need to be first with that story, even if I haven't double, triple checked it?"

Maria Shriver argues that the speed of modern news and social media pressures journalists into reactive publishing. She says journalists should practise “the power of the pause” by stopping to reflect before sending messages or running stories that have not been sufficiently checked.