It was hard to recruit Republican woman (“SO many Democrat white women”), and following the news of the day felt PTSD-inducing to many. But aggressive moderation and the help of a few librarians made a potentially uncivil discussion a little more respectful.
“Whenever you have an individual interaction, a lot of the bluster, a lot of
the generalizations, a lot of the group identifications fall away,” one participant in Pennsylvania said.
News organizations’ audiences are increasingly moving from public social media to closed or semi-closed platforms like WhatsApp, Discord, and Facebook Groups. But there are still opportunities for good reporting on the communities we cover.
“Can we, as an established news company, create something that feels like a news startup focused around investigative and enterprise news, done for a social audience?”
Bilton, Ricardo. "25 Trump voters from Alabama + 25 Clinton voters from San Francisco = 1 surprisingly good Facebook group." Nieman Journalism Lab. Nieman Foundation for Journalism at Harvard, 16 Mar. 2017. Web. 12 Dec. 2024.
APA
Bilton, R. (2017, Mar. 16). 25 Trump voters from Alabama + 25 Clinton voters from San Francisco = 1 surprisingly good Facebook group. Nieman Journalism Lab. Retrieved December 12, 2024, from https://www.niemanlab.org/2017/03/50-trump-voters-from-alabama-50-clinton-voters-from-san-francisco-1-surprisingly-good-facebook-group/
Chicago
Bilton, Ricardo. "25 Trump voters from Alabama + 25 Clinton voters from San Francisco = 1 surprisingly good Facebook group." Nieman Journalism Lab. Last modified March 16, 2017. Accessed December 12, 2024. https://www.niemanlab.org/2017/03/50-trump-voters-from-alabama-50-clinton-voters-from-san-francisco-1-surprisingly-good-facebook-group/.
Wikipedia
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| title = 25 Trump voters from Alabama + 25 Clinton voters from San Francisco = 1 surprisingly good Facebook group
| last = Bilton
| first = Ricardo
| work = [[Nieman Journalism Lab]]
| date = 16 March 2017
| accessdate = 12 December 2024
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