Newspapers & Social Media

I came across an interesting article in Editor & Publisher that looks at some of the potential “pitfalls” of social media use for newspapers, which include taking private or copyrighted mater...

https://socialnewspaper.wordpress.com/2011/02/03/risks-looking-to-the-future/

A recent article in The New York Times that revealed only 2 percent of the Japanese online use Facebook, compared to 60 percent of Americans online, led me to wonder about how Japanese newspapers...

https://socialnewspaper.wordpress.com/2011/01/29/asahi-shimbun-japans-social-media-use/

When a Boston Globe reporter wanted to illustrate a story he was doing on a tech conference,  he jumped on the photo-sharing social media platform Flickr, got permission from the shooters and ra...

https://socialnewspaper.wordpress.com/2011/01/27/did-you-picture-this-citizen-photojournalism/

As the newspaper in the United States with the largest daily print circulation at 3.3 million, I wanted to take a look at USA Today and its social media use.  So I interviewed Glenna De Roy earl...

https://socialnewspaper.wordpress.com/2011/01/22/usa-todays-social-media-use/

Regional newspapers, such as the Cleveland Plain Dealer in the US state of Ohio, are using social media platforms to increase their appeal.  The Plain Dealer website (cleveland.com) includes a s...

https://socialnewspaper.wordpress.com/2011/01/19/newspaper-reinvention-take-2-cleveland-plain-dealer/

It’s interesting to read that bloggers are critiquing newspaper and other traditional media coverage of the protests in Tunisia, finding that it falls short.  This I suppose acts as a kind of ...

https://socialnewspaper.wordpress.com/2011/01/15/tunisians-protest-lack-of-traditional-media-coverage-via-blogs/

So, how has social media impacted the role of the newspaper ombudsman?  To find out, I asked Andy Alexander, ombudsman for The Washington Post.  Here’s what he had to say: “In a nutshell, T...

https://socialnewspaper.wordpress.com/2011/01/12/social-media-the-ombudsman-interview-with-andy-alexander-of-the-washington-post/

Another unusual citizen journalist created story made international headlines this fall after a Chinese woman was forced to have an abortion a month before her baby was due, due to China’s one ...

https://socialnewspaper.wordpress.com/2011/01/06/citizen-journalists-make-headlinestake-2/

Citizen journalists are using social media platforms in relatively “closed” societies such as Iran and China to supply information to the outside world.  During the 2009 protests in Iran, pe...

https://socialnewspaper.wordpress.com/2011/01/02/citizen-journalists-make-headlines/

My professor forwarded a thought-provoking article from The New York Times, which highlights a newspaper reinvention experiment going on in a small town in the US state of Connecticut.  The pape...

https://socialnewspaper.wordpress.com/2010/12/29/reinvention-experiment-take-1/