Comments on: Why social media matters to journalists http://www.advancingthestory.com/2009/09/25/why-social-media-matters-to-journalists/ Journalism in a Multimedia World Mon, 30 Jan 2012 10:03:33 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Deb Wenger http://www.advancingthestory.com/2009/09/25/why-social-media-matters-to-journalists/comment-page-1/#comment-4796 Deb Wenger Fri, 25 Sep 2009 13:20:56 +0000 http://www.advancingthestory.com/?p=1822#comment-4796 Interestingly, in a post today on Journalistics, it appears that a majority of journalists ARE tapping in to social media. "According to a new survey from Middleberg Communications and the Society for New Communications Research (SNCR), as reported in PRWeek , 70 percent of journalists said they use social networks to assist in reporting (compared to 41 percent last year)." Of course, this doesn't preclude the need for more and better tools to track and synthesize social media content , rather it creates more urgency. Interestingly, in a post today on Journalistics, it appears that a majority of journalists ARE tapping in to social media.

“According to a new survey from Middleberg Communications and the Society for New Communications Research (SNCR), as reported in PRWeek , 70 percent of journalists said they use social networks to assist in reporting (compared to 41 percent last year).”

Of course, this doesn’t preclude the need for more and better tools to track and synthesize social media content , rather it creates more urgency.

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