News organizations understand that, in today's digital area, having a social media presence is key to remaining competitive. Local television stations, therefore, utilize platforms like Facebook -- which is used by more than half of American adults (52%) -- to share their content and trigger …
The social media data’s usage has been explored in various ways over the years. The usage ranges from health issues to political campaigns. Now a study claims that social media data can be used to help predict crimes. The study was conducted by four researchers from …
The development of social media platforms has led news organizations to search for new audiences. However, social media users consume news differently than traditional media audiences. People want quick access to social media and they want to get the news straight from their feed. “Social users …
In the digital age of consuming news anytime and anywhere, social media has become an important channel for journalists to collect and report news and engage with consumers. Since the rise of social media as a “transparent,” “interactive” and “real-time” media source, news networks that encourage …
A recent study reveals that politicians rely more on social media than TV talk shows to shape and deliver their messages to their target groups and present their nearness to the people. Department of Communication and Media Research of University of Zürich, Switzerland researchers-Nicole Ernst, Sina …
Does the future of small-town news depend on big social media? Jeremy Weldon, the news editor at the Panolian, a newspaper in Panola County, Mississippi, is a reluctant supporter of social media. While he runs a traditional bi-weekly paper, he believes that social media is an …
Both Donald Trump and Hilary Clinton were portrayed negatively by social media in the 2016 election campaign, a recent study has found. After analyzing Facebook memes made on both of them, thestudy found that they were portrayed or framed with negative tone. Trump was framed on …
Over the past decade, people have experienced a wave of social networking sites, offering them to experience unprecedented interactivity. A recent Pew Research Center study found that about 56 percent of adult social media users in the United States use more than one of these platforms: Twitter, Instagram, Pinterest, …
Advances in technology allow news outlets to publish news on various platforms—their own websites, social networking sites like Facebook and Twitter, and so on. As a result, many readers do not subscribe to broadsheet; rather, they read news on social media pages of news outlets. News …
Fake news, which is false or misleading content intentionally dressed up to look like news articles, has been a much-talked topic since the 2016 U.S. presidential election. Social networking sites, especially Facebook, have been a boon for its users to come across misleading items. More confusion arises when users …
Facebook’s ad hoc groups, which sporadically form on social network sites for pursuing societal change, earn more news media coverage compared to the groups oriented toward entertaining topics. Three academics from University of Jyväskylä analyzed 27 open Facebook groups and pages selected according to their different …
Anyone overseeing a newsroom's social channels quickly learns that they're all unique. Tanita Gaither is the digital content manager for Gray's WIS-TV in Columbia, SC. She tries to develop strategies that leverage the most powerful elements of each. "There’s this old saying, 'You break news on …
