Meerkat and Periscope: will live-streaming apps transform news?

Last week, the Economist was one of the first news organisations in the UK to trial Meerkat, using it to explain UK deflation. Economics correspondent Henry Curr answered questions, sent in by readers on Twitter, on a live stream, as inflation fell to 0% for the first time in recent memory.

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