International Business Times: Newsrooms have been mining Twitter for years for tips, sources and photos. Now, they’ve got a new tip sheet: live video streamers Periscope and Meerkat, which have created a whole new world of user-generated content to pull from. With the apps’ integrated live comment feed, producers can quickly correspond with these creators to check validity, ask for more context and even direct the scene sooner than they ever would have hoped with video sites like YouTube.