Social Networks

Wednesday, December 23, 2009

Manchester Evening News Using Twitter to Cover Local Meetings

“The Manchester Evening News [in the United Kingdom] and its sister titles at the MEN Media group are using social media and blogging tools to increase their coverage of local authorities,” Attiq Sadiq at journalism.co.uk reported December 23, 2009. See “Manchester Evening News ramps up local council coverage with liveblogging.”

Sadiq said, “Journalists for MEN are using Twitter to send minute-by-minute updates from full council meetings at authorities around Greater Manchester.”

Posted by on Wednesday, December 23, 2009 at 09:03 AM in Journalism, Social Networks | | Comments (0)

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Friday, November 27, 2009

Is Twitter Essential to the Distribution of News?

Twitter, along with other social media outlets such as Facebook and MySpace, has become as essential to the distribution of news as any newspaper, TV station, or news channel,” asserts Tech.Blorge’s Dave Parrack in a November image 27, 2009, post headlined “Tiger Woods car crash another victory for Twitter.”

Notes Parrack: “The Web is already squeezing the life out of the newspaper industry, because who needs to pay money to read news that’s already a day out of date when the Internet offers everything for free Until Rupert Murdoch gets his way) and bang up-to-date.”

He’s referring to publishing on Internet time, not Industrial age time. If legacy media is to prosper and survive, it must publish on internet time and not waste capital carting day old news to distribution sites by truck.

Posted by on Friday, November 27, 2009 at 08:56 PM in Newspapers, Radio &Television, Social Networks | | Comments (0)

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