Social Media

News and commentary from around the Web of interest to journalism innovators and entrepreneurs

News editors no longer have to wait for AP updates or CNN videos, thanks to the meteoric spread of citizens armed with smart phones that can deliver photos, video and tweets even before local news trucks arrive on the scene.

News and commentary from around the Web of interest to journalism innovators and entrepreneurs

Can you connect with your audience in 6 seconds or less? And what can we learn from the world's most innovative companies?

How can we harness the power of the crowd for reporting news? Or for getting information about crime?

News and commentary from around the Web of interest to journalism innovators and entrepreneurs

Which future trends are likely to affect your newsroom? And what are consumer brands doing that newsrooms could learn from?

News and commentary from around the Web of interest to journalism innovators and entrepreneurs

News and commentary from around the Web of interest to journalism innovators and entrepreneurs

“People challenging my views on Twitter makes me a better journalist,” CNN Anchor and Chief Washington Correspondent Jake Tapper told an audience of professionals, educators and students at the 2013 Hurley Symposium.

A senior researcher for the Pew Research Center said about 20 percent of social media users have defriended or blocked someone whose partisan posts became a little too much.

Moderator Barbara Cochran, Curtis B. Hurley Chair in Public Affairs Journalism began the panel discussion with a startling statistic: 80 percent of television viewers use another device while watching TV.

Panelists at the Curtis B. Hurley Symposium at the National Press Club said Twitter had a profound impact on their daily job requirements, speeding up the news cycle and increasingly shifting the conversation from pundits to the public.