Tags: Twitterocracy

Hurley Symposium 2013
CNN’s Tapper: We have to meet readers and viewers where they are
April 10, 2013
“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.
Hurley Symposium 2013
Researchers: Political Twitter users tend to tweet almost exclusively among themselves
April 10, 2013
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.
Hurley Symposium 2013
Public television engagement and the second screen
April 10, 2013
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.
Hurley Symposium 2013
Journalists and Obama, Romney digital directors dish on Twitter’s political impact
April 9, 2013
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.