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A journalist’s quick guide to Reddit, the next thing you have to learn

A journalist’s quick guide to Reddit, the next thing you have to learn | Social Media and Journalists | Scoop.it

After President Obama's “surprise Q&A appearance Wednesday,” Poynter's Jeff Sonderman says, “it’s time for journalists to understand Reddit and the role it plays not only in culture, but in specific news events.”

 

(Published August 30, 2012.)

 

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How Romney Learned the Hard Truth about Promoted Hashtags

How Romney Learned the Hard Truth about Promoted Hashtags | Social Media and Journalists | Scoop.it

Telling people to use a hashtag can turn around and bite you: “Thanks to Twitter's overdeveloped instinct for mockery, this is a fairly common tale. ... so common that it even earned an insufferably jargony name: a bashtag. ... Romney's stacks up as one of the worst bashtags Twitter's seen.” #AreYouBetterOff

 

(Published Sept. 6, 2012.)

 

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With YouTube Video, Obama Looks to Expand Social Media Reach

With YouTube Video, Obama Looks to Expand Social Media Reach | Social Media and Journalists | Scoop.it

"[A]s President Obama and his advisers prepare to begin their general election push, they are turning first not to a 30-second commercial but a 17-minute online documentary that they hope will be shared and spread online through social networks and e-mail."

 

(Published March 14, 2012, in The New York Times.)

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