Over 1.4 million fans comment and share stories on NPR‘s Facebook page, and Nieman Journalism Lab reports that this is one of the most popular media outlets on Facebook. The referral traffic on NPR’s Facebook page has grown from 1.5 million in August 2010 to 4.5 million pageviews a month. While that traffic used to [...] 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 →
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 →