Like other newspapers, the Herald has seen the benefits in relying on humans over bots in running social media accounts.
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Articles tagged social media (195)
May 21, 2013
May 13, 2013
“We knew from the outset that it was incredibly important to foster a really robust and vibrant conversation on these issues, and we knew, also, that it’s really easy for conversations about race, ethnicity, and culture to go off the rails.”
May 2, 2013
Flipboard, Zite, Pulse, and their peers are giving news companies a second chance at dealing with the rise of aggregators. Will they come out of this round any better than the last?
April 26, 2013
Plus: Sexism and the Times’ Jill Abramson, the AP gets hacked on Twitter, and the rest of the week’s media and tech news.
April 19, 2013
Plus: Medium and Matter join forces, journalism education discussion, and the rest of the week’s journalism and tech reads.
April 17, 2013
Nieman Visiting Fellow Hong Qu analyzes the role social media played in breaking the news of the Boston Marathon attack.
April 8, 2013
Emerging spaces for storytelling: Journalistic lessons from social media in the Delhi gang rape case
The widely reported crime and the resulting protests were a watershed moment in India’s use of social media in hard news coverage, according to three researchers.
April 2, 2013
“People have grown a little skeptical of companies that don’t seem to have a business model and you wonder when they’re going to do something.”
March 27, 2013
When NGOs act like news organizations, narratives of the Arab Spring, and predicting who you are from what you “like”: all that and more in this month’s roundup of the academic literature.
March 26, 2013
A New York Times social media editor says they don’t attract an audience and “are aesthetically damaging.”
March 18, 2013
Sports, weather, and traffic now fill 40 percent of local television news — while crime, politics, and government coverage are all down.
March 15, 2013
Researchers found that Twitter users covering the violence start to take on some of the characteristics of traditional media.
March 7, 2013
Paywalls are generating real money for American newspapers in 2013. But would they have in 2007, or 2002, or 1997?
February 27, 2013
What does an ideal front page look like, can social media usage predict political involvement, and how is user-generated content coming into newsrooms: all that and more in this month’s roundup of the academic literature.
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