Social Media in the Newsroom
Tools of the trade Category
In all of our ownership changes, I think this is actually just third time we’ve switched our entire website from back-end to front-end. We’ve gone through many iterations of the website itself, but the back-end hasn’t fluctuated much. And until now, we’ve always been sort of “stuck” on out-dated and clunky systems. Every time I [...]
Learning valuable lessons in the newsroom
By: Steph on: Sep 13,2011 In: Social Media, Tools of the trade, Working on the NewsroomYesterday, I learned a few things about the ever-uphill road of getting reporters on board with Twitter and/or Facebook. Here is an email I sent out to everyone that, I swear, started off with just wanting to share a helpful link with them and keep Twitter in their minds: This is an EXCELLENT resource for [...]
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A fundamental thing that Newspaper Journalists Against Twitter fail to remember is that while live-tweeting a presser or breaking news event is important, it’s never the whole story. Also, not all of our readers are using Twitter. Granted that number is dwindling every day, but there will always be someone who prefers to read the [...]
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