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Gary G

3 Social Media Skills They Should Teach In Journalism School - 10,000 Words - 1 views

  • Not everyone sees the value in “live Tweeting/Facebooking” events or breaking news
  • But I believe that we’re trending towards a more wide acceptance of the medium for reporting live events.
  • When you’re the only person on the scene of a breaking news story, or the only person at the meeting, often that means you’re the only source of information available at that time
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  • Being able to dive in and start posting quality information and news items is a great skill to have.
  • In a few years I can see social media being a critical element of any journalism school’s curriculum
  • they risk being left behind as journalism — and journalism education — continues to evolve
  • many schools are still experimenting and, in some cases, “waiting out” social media to see if it eventually collapses in on itself.
  • Some see it as a lot of unverified information. In some cases it is
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      There were many elements of scholastic journalism that were visible throughout this article. Because this article made a focus on Twitter as a platform, promoting a discipline of verification is very important. When the author of this article wrote about live tweeting events, verification comes into play big time. The sources of news need to be reliable. This article also provides a forum for public comment, by allowing just that- the public to comment on stories below. Also, making the significant interesting and relevant is something that is required for journalism. NOBODY wants to read a boring article. Has to be upbeat, funny, and relateable.
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      THIS IS FOR THE KATIE COURIC SOURCE: The interview with Katie Couric, conducted by Brian Solis, was about social media, and Katie's involvement in sites such as Twitter, and cbsnews.com, where she hosts a webshow. Katie's interview shows that she supports independent thought ( as the good journalist she is!) and has certain segments that are significant, interesting, and relevant.
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    This article details three social media skills that the author of the blog "10,000 words" believes should be taught in Journalism school. The author believes that Social Media should be brought into the curriculum in these schools. This author's three points are that twitter is a "story machine", live teeting/facebook events is a skill, and that content scheduling is king. In my opinion, these three points are very interesting, and important in terms of the future of education.
Tom McHale

How you can use social machinery to power personalized news delivery | Poynter. - 0 views

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    In the process of adding friends, following people and retweeting things, we have created a mosaic of what we like, which can be used to train Web services. We don't think about it, but it's there. And it's all out there. What you're seeing in these services and many more are early stages of a new layer spreading across the Web - the social layer. It's becoming key to how online content companies deliver information that increasingly flows through Twitter and Facebook. The social layer of the Web is the next phase. It uses our data and social graphs as machinery to power new services that have nothing to do with updating your status, "liking" or retweeting. It's just the Web, transformed into your Web.If you haven't already, take a couple of minutes to try out Intel's Museum of Me. When you log in with Facebook, it creates a stunning video tour of a futuristic museum about your life and friends.
Tom McHale

MediaShift . Storyful Helps News Organizations Monitor Social Media | PBS - 0 views

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    "A social media newsroom, the teams of reporters at Storyful monitor and engage with communities on Twitter, YouTube, Google+ and any social media platform on which anyone with an Internet connection can converse. ((Within two years of launching, Storyful began cooperating with some of the biggest news brands in the world, including ABC News, Reuters and the New York Times, and social platforms such as YouTube.(( Sheridan recently spoke with the European Journalism Centre, where this interview originally appeared, about his vision for digital-first journalism and what role outfits like his will play in enabling it."
Tom McHale

How Social Media Is Taking Over the News Industry [INFOGRAPHIC] - 0 views

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    More than ever, people are using Twitter, Facebook and other social media sources to learn about what's happening in the world as traditional news outlets become increasingly less relevant to the digital generation. But the trend toward Internet and social media-based news - and the accompanying rush to be first to report a story - also comes with pitfalls. Some 50% of news consumers have received "breaking news" via social media, only to find out later it was erroneously reported.
Matt M

4 lessons from Columbia's social media debate and related events | Poynter. - 0 views

  • Both sides agreed, however, that a journalist’s improper use of social media—spouting a racial slur, for example—was grounds for punishment. Journalists are public figures, they said, represent their parent company, and have a responsibility to uphold their employer’s reputation.
  • The anti-regulation side, of course, said that journalists should favor transparency over objectivity, and that audiences deserve to know a journalist’s biases.
  • Still, the consensus seemed to be that ‘old-school objectivity’ is a myth: we all have biases, both sides said, and we can only try to overcome these biases in our reporting. Journalists understand this truth. Audiences do not.
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  • 4. Social media norms are still developing; involve all stakeholders before making a brash regulatory decision.
  • In the end, the debate was a draw: 50 percent of voters said that “the boss” should regulate his or her journalists’ use of social media, while the other 50 percent thought that “the boss” should not
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    Here, then, in an easily-accessible Poynter-esque list, is what these folks - and you - can learn from the social media debate:
Tom McHale

About | Storyful. - 0 views

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    "There has never been a better time to be a storyteller. And there is no team better suited to storytelling in the social age than the Storyful team. We are a global family of technologists, journalists and social media evangelists who work with some of the biggest news and social brands in the world. Our horizons have broadened. Our ambitions have grown. And our team is getting bigger."
Tom McHale

6 lessons in social storytelling from 6 months of reported.ly | Media news - 0 views

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    "The social media reporting platform launched six months ago and has recently developed a website, but social is still at its core"
Tom McHale

4 ways journalism educators are using Storify as a teaching tool | Poynter. - 0 views

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    More and more news sites have been using Storify to capture reaction and highlight interesting discussions taking place on social networks. And journalism educators have also started using it - to create multimedia course content, organize handouts and teach students how to curate social media. The tool, which lets users pull together content from various social networks to tell stories, is a one-stop Web publishing shop for even the most technophobic educator.
Tom McHale

AP adds new social media guidelines on live-tweeting, friending/following sources | Poy... - 0 views

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    The Associated Press updated its staff social media guidelines today with a new section on live-tweeting news and an updated section on how to connect with newsmakers on social media.
Tom McHale

Mashable's Social Media Guide for Journalists - 0 views

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    From making use of social media tools to create and store content (ala YouTube and other video blogs) to tracking down sources (via Facebook) to publicizing stories and interacting with readers (by logging into Twitter), social media tools have opened up a whole new realm to today's journalists. Here are some great resources that can teach you everything from how to use YouTube to conduct man-on-the-street interviews to how to keep up with other journos on Twitter.
Tom McHale

SXSWi Day 3: Four Challenges of Social News Gathering - SocialTimes - 1 views

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    "Journalists and news organizations are turning to the crowd's aid for reporting and photography, since the right person with a mobile phone at the right time can often give a good picture of the news sooner than newsroom staffers. In "Accurate, Fair & Safe: The Ethics of Social News" at SXSW, two industry pros discussed the benefits of social news gathering - but the benefits don't come without pitfalls."
Tom McHale

MediaShift . How to Teach Social Media in Journalism Schools | PBS - 0 views

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    Students use social media in their daily lives, with Facebook an almost permanent fixture on the computer screen. Yet they tend not to think about social media as part of their professional toolkit as journalists. This post looks at how J schools are trying to incorporate social media in the curriculum.
Tom McHale

NowThis News' Ed O'Keefe: Making Video News for Mobile 'Changes Everything' | Mediashif... - 0 views

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    "Typically, web content flows from a website into social media and mobile apps. NowThis News, founded last September by veterans of Huffington Post, anchors its content in its mobile apps. Original videos, in digestible lengths and narrated by young voices, stem from iOS and Android apps and flow to a minimal website and the network's social media pages, and through its distribution partnerships. NowThis News has already formed partnerships with BuzzFeed, MSN, Forbes, The Atlantic, Mashable and the Columbia Journalism School. Ed O'Keefe spent 12 years moving up the ranks at ABC, going from desk assistant to executive producer of ABC News Digital, helping to integrate ABC with Yahoo News. He left to join the early version of NowThis News last year, known as Planet Daily, as editor in chief. In a Q&A conducted via phone and email, O'Keefe explained the forward-thinking news operation he's leading. The following is a lightly edited version of that conversation."
Tom McHale

Social media and the Boston bombings: When citizens and journalists cover the... - 2 views

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    "In a breaking news situation, journalists get an adrenaline rush. There is a palpable eagerness to get the scoop, to be the first to bring the story to the public. In today's world of social media, mobile phones, and the real-time 24/7 news cycle, though, journalists face competition from all sides: eyewitness accounts, official sources, and even friends and family are sharing news before mainstream news institutions have "published" the official news story. To illustrate this predicament, I compiled 26 tweets that "broke" the Boston Marathon bombing news."
Matt M

Facebook Is The #1 Social Site For News Traffic: Pew - 0 views

  • the social network lags behind Google and other platforms as a significant driver of traffic to news media sites.
  • n fact, only nine percent of U.S. adults get their news from Facebook and Twitte
  • That’s according to the Pew Research Center’s Project for Excellence in Journalism’s
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  • On any mobile device, seven percent get news on Facebook very often and 19 percent get news on Facebook somewhat often; 27 percent of those who obtain news on Facebook do so via Twitter too, with 11 percent doing it  somewhat or very often; About 70 percent of U.S. adults get news links from friends and family on Facebook, not from (subscribing to) journalists and news organizations on the social network; and Overall, 13 percent of digital news consumers follow news recommendations on both Facebook and Twitter.
  • More than twice as many digital news consumers follow news recommendations from Facebook than from Twitter,
  • n other words, people aren’t relying solely on Facebook. And the Pew study also revealed:
  • Facebook is the more dominant of the social channels for driving news traffic, in part because of the site’s stickiness
  • Based on Nielsen data, Facebook users stay on the site an average of 423 minutes each per month.
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      This article is describing how that alot of people are always on facebook but it still has not reached the level that Google is at yet. It is says that people use facebook to get news but they solely rely on it even though that people on facebook follow news recommendations more than twitter. This article shows that facebook is loyal to ciizens. It shows this by not only posting news from one site but from any site that want to post here it also doesnt tell you which site it needs to listen to.
Matt M

10 Historical Events Affected by Social Media - 0 views

  • Hurricane Katrina, 9/11, Princess Diana’s death — these three events might have played out differently had social media been as strong as it is now.
  • Today we turn to social media when an influential event occurs as a way to share our personal experiences and relate to the people most affected. It provides us with the reassurance that we’re not alone, but also gives us the opportunity to help.
Tom McHale

One-third of adults under 30 get news on social networks now | Poynter. - 0 views

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    "For American adults under 30, social media has far surpassed newspapers and has equaled TV as a primary source of daily news, according to a new study of news consumption trends by the Pew Research Center for the People & The Press."
Tom McHale

Americans twice as likely to believe news organizations than social media | Poynter. - 0 views

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    "No matter how old they are, people surveyed for a new study by the Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research and the American Press Institute were "more than twice as likely to express high levels of trust about what they learn directly from a news organization (43 percent say they trust it mostly or completely) as they are to trust what they discovered through social media.""
Tom McHale

Twitter and News: How people use Twitter to get news - 0 views

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    "At a moment when the network is poised to make a number of changes, the American Press Institute and Twitter, in collaboration with research company DB5, have produced a new study that probes the relationship between news use and the Twittersphere. The study, which involved an online survey of more than 4,700 social media users, finds that Twitter users tend to be heavier news consumers than other social media users. News, indeed, is one of the primary activities that they engage in on the network."
Tom McHale

The Short Lifespan of a Tweet: Retweets Only Happen Within the First Hour - 0 views

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    For some, Twitter is a social network and for others it is just a broadcast medium. Judging from the latest data from social media analytics and monitoring service Sysomos, for the majority of users, Twitter is indeed mostly a broadcast medium. After analyzing over 1.2 billion tweets, the Sysomos team found that only 29% of tweets actually produce a reaction - that is, a reply or a retweet. According to Sysomos, just 6% of all tweets are retweeted and these retweets have a very short lifespan. Virtually all retweets happen within the first hour after the original tweet
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