When NPR shared links to KPLU stories on its Facebook page — only visible to people in the Seattle area — the station’s website got record traffic.
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Articles tagged social media (137)
February 10, 2012
The Journal has found the perfect story for two image-heavy social networks.
January 25, 2012
The best way to figure out what information readers need from you when you are covering an emergency is to imagine yourself in their position.
January 23, 2012
The outgoing Post’s managing editor on his critics, the challenges ahead for 2012, and his return to The Wall Street Journal.
January 23, 2012
AllNovaScotia charges $360 a year and seemingly breaks all the “rules” for online news. So why does it have the ear of the most powerful people in the province — and make a profit?
January 6, 2012
Plus: The generation gap behind the SOPA conflict, a rough couple of weeks for the New York Times, and the rest of must-reads in media news.
January 5, 2012
Getting news consumption right is a matter of dialing up (or down) our favorite sources, our personal networks — and The Borg.
December 30, 2011
…And that’s when social media will also get really interesting.
December 20, 2011
If I can trust you to tell me what’s going on, then I don’t care if you work out of a newsroom or out of your garage.
December 19, 2011
From local TV to journalism co-ops, 2012 may be a banner year for the local news ecosystem.
December 19, 2011
Versioning, the software business standby, is making its way into journalism’s business practices.
December 15, 2011
As news companies look to the new year, here are some of the rates, percentages, and figures that will determine how they adjust to new digital realities.
November 22, 2011
When your customers are your advertisers, a hobby can become a business.
November 18, 2011
Plus: Journalists arrested at Occupy Wall Street, more fallout over Romenesko and attribution, Amazon’s Kindle Fire release, and the rest of the week’s future-of-news reads.
November 14, 2011
A new Pew study finds news outlets using Twitter almost exclusively for one-way distribution — of their own content.
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