Al Jazeera has launched an educational campaign with one goal: “to raise a new generation of citizen journalists.” Facebook and Twitter will enable these journalists to update the world about news in their area — and Al Jazeera’s new YouTube channel, Al Jazeera Unplugged, will teach them how to use these social networks to share information effectively. Read →
The Pew Research Center’s Project for Excellence in Journalism has worked with Crimson Hexagon to analyze the early coverage of the Osama Bin Laden raid, focusing on coverage in the mainstream press, the blogosphere and on Twitter/Facebook between Sunday night, May 1, and Wednesday, May 4. On Twitter and Facebook, the largest share of the conversation (19%) was the sharing of jokes, which Pew describes as “something of a national ritual and emotional outlet for momentous events from the triumphant to the tragic.” Read →
NPR has released the results of a survey of its Twitter followers, which also incorporates the results of its earlier survey of NPR fans on Facebook. The NPR Twitter survey was fielded between August 25 and September 9, 2010, promoting it through its main Twitter accounts. A total of 12,227 respondents began the survey and 10,244 [...] Read →
Part Three: Rafat Ali, Publisher and Editor of paidContent.org, moderates a panel including Paul Berry, CTO of Huffington Post; Eric Carvin, Social Networks and News Environment Editor of Associated Press; Cynthia Collins, Director of Digital Marketing for The New York Times, and Craig Engler, Senior Vice President and General Manager of Syfy Digital. Read →
Middleberg Communications and the Society for New Communications Research have released their 2nd annual “Media in the Wired World” survey, finding that journalists have increased their use of social media: Nearly 70% of journalists are using social networking sites, a 28% increase since 2008 48% are using Twitter or other microblogging sites and tools, a [...] Read →
An October 2009 national survey conducted by Cision and Don Bates of The George Washington University found that a majority of reporters and editors now depend on social media sources when researching their stories. Among the journalists surveyed, 89% said they turn to blogs for story research, 65% to social media sites such as Facebook [...] Read →
MediaBistro’s E.B. Boyd has interviewed NPR’s social media strategist Andy Carvin and produced a great case study for how Twitter and Facebook can be used by news organizations to report on breaking stories use Twitter Lists to provide access to credible sources find and vet sources to provide on-the ground insight and analyis ask the community for [...] Read →
When four police officers were shot and killed in a coffee shop near Seattle in late November, local media mobilized to follow law enforcement as the suspect was tracked down. It wasn’t the first time social networking, and especially Twitter was used to supplement media coverage, but this time it made breakthroughs in substantial and useful [...] Read →
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