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With two-thirds of Americans getting their news via social media, it is clear that social media is rapidly continuing to grow. This trend means that newsrooms and news publications are putting their focus and resources into platforms like Instagram to share the news with their followers in an quick
Audience & Social
Social media is all about visibility, but the key for digital journalists is realising that each app promises a different kind of visibility because they reach different communities and content is presented to them in different ways. This guide will break down how content should be shared on Facebook, Twitter
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Between social media and the internet, journalists today can be inundated with a variety of sources. So how can journalists keep on top of the news in the region that they're covering? Below are some tips based on my experience covering the Middle East for over a decade:
How-To
These days, it feels like breaking into journalism is a more competitive landscape than ever before. So what can you do to rise above the status quo as a student digital journalist? If you want to be taken seriously as a digital journalist in the 21st century, having an online
How-To
What is Weibo? Pronounced as “way bor”, it is the Chinese word for “microblog”. And it is also the name of one of the biggest social media platforms in China. There are many microblogging sites in China, but Sina Weibo is the most popular one - it currently has more than
Audience & Social
Snapchat has made Maps available on the web, so is this another masterstroke or are journalists being given a tool that users didn’t respond to?
Audience & Social
We love the Internet because it’s a treasure chest of information, and a place where we can join groups to communicate with people who share our interests, no matter how niche the subject or how scattered about the world we might be. As journalists, social media and online communities
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There is one clear fact about journalism and social media, i.e. Twitter is the ‘Holy Grail’ for journalists.The 140 characters in a tweet are used by a majority of journalists for breaking news and microblogging. Almost every journalist has a twitter account. Facebook on the other hand is
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Did Pope Francis endorse Donald Trump? Did Hillary Clinton sell weapons to Isis? If you don't know the answers to these questions, you may have been the victim of fake news. In the first episode of a new podcast from Interhacktives – Data Day – Ella Wilks-Harper and Luke
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The last time I checked, WhatsApp was not one of the most popular social media apps among journalists. It was trailing Twitter, Facebook, Messenger, and Line by far. Many a journalist have written off this chat app with a disputed 800 million monthly active users after efforts to broadcast through
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While browsing data visualisations on Pinterest the other day, I came across an interesting-looking tool: Sociotope, a social media experiment which takes the data people leave behind in social networks and turns it into an interactive data visualisation. The free-to-use web app works with Twitter, Facebook and
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If you were on Twitter yesterday, you probably noticed the trending hashtag #AdviceForYoungJournalists, which was sparked off by a bitingly cynical blog post from financial journalist Felix Salmon. His advice to young wannabe journalists contacting him for guidance is this: don't become journalists. At least, not if you