“The initial wave of SoundCloud users from the radio world included CNN Radio, Boston's WBUR and KCRW in Los Angeles. Since then, the company has been cultivating the on-air community in earnest.”
(Published Sept. 28, 2012.)
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"Marc Lynch, an expert on Middle Eastern media at George Washington University, says social media and satellite television worked together to draw attention to the Arab spring. Social media spread images of protesters in Tunisia that might otherwise have been suppressed by the regime, he wrote on his blog at Foreign Policy. 'But it was the airing of these videos on Al Jazeera … which brought those images to the mass Arab public and even to many Tunisians who might otherwise not have realised what was happening.'
"The staff in Al Jazeera’s Arabic and English newsrooms had, as it happened, undergone intense social-media training only the month before."
(Published July 7, 2011.) This is an excellent article from The Economist, focusing on the relationship between journalism and social media. Delete the scoop?
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"As I have been doing it for the last four years (2008, 2009 and 2011), let me introduce you to my latest social media landscape to help you understand the big picture of who is doing what."
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Intro: "Social media include MySpace, Orkut, Friendster, Facebook, Twitter, Foursquare, Gowalla, Yelp, YouTube, and many more. Sites where information is loosely shared (such as Delicious.com and Flickr.com) can also be considered social media ..."
This 7-page Google Doc provides a +quick cheat sheet+ for journalism educators on three closely related topics: social media, citizen journalism, and media curators. Delete the scoop?
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"[I]n early January [2012], Google launched ‘Search Plus Your World,’ which elevates Google social shares in all users’ Google search results. Aside from a whole host of privacy and anti-trust concerns it raised, this (in my view) put a gun to the heads of journalists and news brands, forcing them onto Google+ for the sake of raising their stories and profiles in search results." Via danmason Delete the scoop?
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Here's a crowdsourced list of sites and tools that journalists are using in their work. The links point to articles that explain how journalists use these tools.
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