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Vine shifts from comedy clips to a valid journalistic tool

This article is about  Channel 4’s Alex Thomson filmed some emotive Vines about Ebola in Sierra Leone.

• Vine is mainly used for visual gags and comedy
• Vines have been used to report on stories from the riots in Ferguson  to and the Scottish referendum to last week’s student protests in London. 
• Thomson’s Vines from Sierra Leone caused a stir on Twitter.

I think that this new type of media (apart of Youtube) is finally getting used in a way. This could be great for more updates and breaking news and journalists should make a snapchat too because you can put text on the video or the time.