Journalism in regards to Social Media

1. Journalism
• a literary style and method of inquiry
• practice of investigating and reporting issues, trends and
events
• aims to provide analysis of news and information to public

2. • Over the years, with the enhancement in the methods and
ways of social media, journalism has undergone a great
change.
• The ways of presenting and analyzing the news have
varied greatly.
• Social media sites play a major role in delivering the
news.
• This has led to the introduction of a new term- Social
Journalism.

3. What is Social Journalism?
• A media model consisting the hybrid of professional
journalism and reader content.
• makes use of the power of social media tools and
multimedia(Facebook, Twitter, blogs etc.) to spread
the information and news.

4. The Changing Trend

5. Ongoing trends of Journalism in regards to
Social Media
From inspiration:
• find and cultivate story ideas as well as sources
• follow events and news in real time
To publication:
• find and reach readers where they are
• promote work
• attract traffic to the publication
• create an engaged and loyal reader community

6. • the digital interface enables journalists to discover and analyse
facts more critically
• more reader feedback is being integrated; more voices are
being heard; more diverse perspectives on the same news are
being presented
• more stories are available, archived and searchable for longer
periods of time
• people are engaged more actively with the changes in the
world by taking photos or making videos of key moments, by
commenting on blogs and sharing stories of interest

7. Networked journalism
• every journalist acts as node in the network that record
information, share and distribute it
• journalists can sail in the sea of information with the help of
programmers, designers, and hackers who are skilled at
revealing and uncovering digital information.
• faced with large data sets, journalists can include analysis,
connection, explanation, and storytelling.
e.g..

8. Visual journalism
• journalism is visual and text based at the same time
• text, video, and audio sources are increasingly integrated and
coordinated in narrating
• search engines based on visual matching rather than textual
tags are becoming more refined
• visual literacy is important for journalists
• better understanding and use of images as carriers of
information is needed

9. Point of view journalism
• Multiple versions of the same story are a natural fact as
different accounts and camera angles of almost any news
coverage are available on platforms like YouTube or Flickr
• Because of the use of multiple sources of news on multiple
platforms, the presumed neutrality and objectivity of the
journalist is increasingly difficult to maintain
• For readers and viewers, it is easy to compare different stories
and photos of the same event and spot the differences

10. Journalism at Internet speed
• The Internet and other digital networks have transformed the
newsroom through global telecommunication networks with
broadband capability, wireless communication, and permanent
connectivity.
• There is a continuous flow of information/data that must be
processed on the spot by constantly updating and rewriting the
story
• The basic principles of journalism do not change while
working at Internet speed but it does make the reflective
practice more difficult
• The greater the volume of information to be examined and the
faster its input is demanded for news production, the less time
is left for analytical treatment and narrating

11. A day in the life of a Wired Journalist
• Use crowdsourcing to get a story idea
• Follow up on leads and write the story
• Let tweeps know what you’re writing about, get comments
• Publish on magazine’s online site
• Tweet the link, share it on Facebook and put it up as your
LinkedIn profile note
• Follow up with reader comments and suggestions

12. Social media sites enhance the work
journalists do
• Social networking sites play a great role in delivering the news
to the world
• More than half of the social media users rely and depend on
the networking sites to get the latest updates on news and
information
• For journalists and news organizations, social networks
provide an opportunity for connecting with people, distributing
news stories and complementing news coverage with feeds

13. • Journalists can join the social networks, interact with people
and showcase their articles/stories
• News organizations can create their own pages on networking
sites such as a fan page on Facebook. These pages can be used
to alert people about important news stories the news
organization has published or post other items of interest to its
followers
• Social networks are great for generating conversations among
people about stories. Many news media have found that the
number of reader comments on a story posted on Facebook
can exceed comments posted on the news organization's
official website

14. • People are increasingly learning about news stories
via social networks

15. • According to the State of the News Media 2012
report by the Pew Research Centre, News websites
got 9% of their traffic from social media such as
Twitter and Facebook in 2011, about a 57% increase
over 2009

16. References
• News Use Across Social Media Platforms. (n.d.). Pew Research Centers Journalism
Project RSS. Retrieved June 29, 2014, from
http://www.journalism.org/2013/11/14/news-use-across-social-media-platforms/
• the transition to digital journalism. (n.d.). Facebook and Social Media. Retrieved
June 29, 2014, from http://multimedia.journalism.berkeley.edu/tutorials/digital-
transform/social-networks/
• Haak, B. V., Parks, M., & Castells, M. The Future of Journalism: Networked
Journalism. , 2923-2938. Retrieved June 29, 2014, from
http://ijoc.org/index.php/ijoc/article/viewFile/1750/832
• Nieman Reports | What Is Journalism's Place in Social Media?. (n.d.). Nieman
Reports. Retrieved June 29, 2014, from
http://www.nieman.harvard.edu/reports/article/101882/What-Is-Journalisms-Place-
in-Social-Media.aspx
• What is journalism? Definition and meaning of the craft. (n.d.). American Press
Institute RSS. Retrieved June 30, 2014, from
http://www.americanpressinstitute.org/journalism-essentials/what-is-journalism/