of adults now gettheir news onlinemaking web thethird most popularnews platform
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61 %
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“While internet users who get news online tend toexplore a wide variety of news topics, they arefairly modest in the number of internet sites theyuse to gather that information”
of adults do nothave a favoriteonline news source
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65 %
Journalists have transformed fromgatekeepers of information to curators ofcontent within a public space
* Creating community
* Utilizing unique partnerships
* Incorporating multiple media platforms
* Rethinking how people digest news
* Crowd-Sourcing content
News sites areembracing theimportance ofcommunity byintegrating socialfeatures on-site fora more engagingexperience and toallow readers toshare, discuss, andconnect
* Huffpost’s Social News serves as a ‘digitalwater cooler’
* it provides a place for real online identitiesto discuss news they care about with peoplethey know online all within the boundaries ofHuffington Post
* Since its implementation, Facebook referralshave accounted for over 3.5 million visits
* The New York Times is one of the few newssites currently onboard as a launch partnerfor Twitter’s new @anywhere platform
* enabling deeper on-site twitter integration
* Making it easier to follow site authors andcontributors
* incorporating a Better RT functionality
Cnn’s Vice
* Cnn has Partnered withVice and Sub Pop recordsto create Two newexclusive video series
* VBS.TV and Indie Asia: OnTour with Handsome Furs,both Bring a new shockvalue and edge to Cnn
Metro News Pairs with Foursquare
* the Metro has gone hyperlocal by providing contentto Foursquare
* This location basededitorial partnershipcombines relevant sitecontent with a targetedmobile social network
News has extended beyond the typed word andnow encompasses multiple media formats likevideo, podcasts, live streaming, and mobile
PBS Social TV
* After 35 years on air, PBS has reformatted itsNewsHour TV broadcasts into video content tostream on its YouTube channel
* exclusive web content is also created by anonline correspondent
Npr mobile app
* Connects users to over 1,000 radio stations,live streams, and news programs
* searches both new and archived content
* Enables listeners to create story play lists
Twitter was vital in thecoverage of the Iranelections after thegovernment mediacrackdown
The US airliner whichlanded in the hudsonriver was firstannounced on twitter
Crowd sourcing has turnedtraditional journalism on itshead, but a crowd does notjust appear it must becultivated
as well as becoming engaged in existingcommunities, News organizations have createdtheir own citizen journalism networks
CNN IREPORT
* public journalism initiative to enable peoplefrom across the world to contribute storiesbreaking within their own neighborhoods
* the immediate and intimate coverage hasinspired other networks to create their owninteractive intiatives
Thanks to the social media revolution, newsreaders now have very differentexpectations of how they want to receivetheir content
The new factors online media outlets mustnow consider when publishing content are. . . .
* Real time updates
* Social Trends
* Share-ability
* Thanks to outlets like Twitter, web users aregetting information faster than ever
* The pressure is on news agencies to beat citizenjournalists to the punch by breaking news on the“social wire”
* The BBC’s Global News Director has mandatedsocial media usage for all BBC journalists
* Reuters maintains journalists must never“scoop the wire” by breaking news on twitter
Bbc vs reuters
Now that newsagencies haverealized the value ofsocial networks, theyare exploring newmethods to presentand connect content
News Roulette
both The Guardian and TheNew York Times havereinterpreted chatrouletteas a news disseminationtool in an attempt toencourage the serendipitousdiscovery of news
Google Buzz
ReadWriteWeb.com istrying somethingdifferent by using theirgoogle Buzz accountto enable readers toengage their news teamthrough real-timeconversations
* One of the biggest benefits of social media ishow quickly information can be shared
* News organizations have embraced socialpublishing tools in order to pump theircontent to Facebook, Twitter, Digg, Reddit etc
37%
25%
17% have posted a link on a socialnetworking site
have commented on a news story
of internet users have contributed to thecreation of news, commentary about it, ordissemination of news via social media
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In order to make this process easier, socialsharing buttons are now a standard featureof any online news site
* more and more People are looking towardssites like Facebook, twitter, and Digg as a sourceto find their news
* cnn President John Klien stated,
“I’m more worried about the 500 million or sopeople on Facebook versus the 2 million on Fox”
The iPad will be a key player in reviving thenews industry by enabling a more interactiveformat for news consumption in addition toproviding a new way to monetize content
* an experiment by google, provided each newsstory with an evolving summary of currentdevelopments as a well as an interactive timelineof critical events
* allowed sites to provide complete on-goingcoverage of a story in one easily trackablespace
* Going local is a hot trend for 2010, and it is nodifferent for news sites
* Many news outlets are recognizing the appealof highly targeted local news content,focusing on stories that are relevant forsmall yet participatory communities
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