Real Tweets About Fake Schroon Lake Disaster Under Review

The Syracuse University journalism class assignment, where graduate students reported from a press conference with real time Tweets about a fake hotel collapse at Schroon Lake, is under review.

Last week we reported how the Twitter world that follows Schroon Lake was buzzing when several tweets described a devastating storm that caused a  “Lakeside Hotel” to collapse leaving four people and a baby trapped, and 10,000 people without power.

Jon Glass, the Collaborative Media Room General Manager who taught the class, told Schroon Laker that Schroon Lake has been used as the real town in this exercise for more than ten years.

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