On retweeting: How broadcasting someone else’s 140 characters helps make a...
So you’re on Twitter. You know what a hashtag is; you can squeeze any message into 140 characters. You’re a veteran. But do you know about the battle between the adapters and the preservers? Can you...
View ArticleThis Week in Review: Newsweek on the block, Twitter as a journalistic system,...
[Every Friday, Mark Coddington sums up the week’s top stories about the future of news and the debates that grew up around them. —Josh] Has Newsweek’s time come?: This week was a relatively quiet one...
View ArticleThis Week in Review: Facebook’s future and the open web, and finding balance...
Is Facebook a threat to the open web?: There was still a lot of smart commentary on Facebook’s filing for a public stock offering rolling in last late week, so I’ll start with a couple pieces I missed...
View ArticleWhat’s New in Digital Scholarship: Why journalists link (or why they don’t)...
Editor’s note: There’s a lot of interesting academic research going on in digital media — but who has time to sift through all those journals and papers? Our friends at Journalist’s Resource, that’s...
View ArticleAt NPR, retweets are endorsements after all
That’s according to a memo sent to staffers after a dustup involving a tweet from an NPR account. The memo, first reported yesterday by Romenesko: “If you wouldn’t say it on the air, don’t say it on...
View ArticleNew Pew survey: Not all Twitter users tweet news, but those who do tweet a...
A study published last month confirmed what we already know: Americans across all demographics are increasingly getting their news from Facebook and Twitter. Nearly two-thirds of Facebook and Twitter...
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