Has the phone hacking trial created a new form of journalism?

Has the phone hacking trial created a new form of journalism?

The dead tree press is dead, all hail the new journalism.

The publishers' grasp is loosened now that a legion of bloggers and tweeters can break news and break the monopolies over it.

Up to a point.

Looking at the reporting of the phone hacking trial you would be forgiven for thinking that old models of reporting the news had been swept aside by something altogether more immediate and democratic.

http://www.newstatesman.com/media/2013/11/has-phone-hacking-trial-created-new-form-journalism