Jeff Sonderman
Oct. 23, 2012
12:55 pm
BuzzFeed
Matt Buchanan publishes a list of the news websites that have the most stories that go viral on Facebook (getting at least 100 "interactions"). It's based on all Facebook sharing activity in September, as tracked by
Newswhip.
It's probably no coincidence that the top three websites -- Huffington Post, Daily Mail, and
Yahoo -- use "
frictionless sharing" apps to automatically share some users' article-reading activity with their Facebook friends. While the apps push the boundaries of reader privacy, they also effectively spread stories.
Following them are some legacy media websites: BBC, The New York Times and The Guardian.
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- A few of the 40 most-shared news websites on Facebook.
Earlier: Huffington Post dominates Facebook’s most-shared politics stories last year | With ‘frictionless sharing,’
Facebook and news orgs push boundaries of online privacy
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Julie Moos
Oct. 4, 2012
8:43 am
Today.com | Bloomberg Businessweek | Pew
In an appearance on the "Today" show Thursday, Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg said that the social network now has 1 billion friends. "Just so we’re clear: As of Sept. 14, one in seven people on this planet has been classified as an active Facebook user," writes Helen A.S. Popkin. "If Facebook was a country, it would have the third largest population, right behind China (1,347,350,000) and India (1,210,200,000), and ahead of the United States (314,500,000)."
A recent Pew study showed that
the percentage of all Americans getting news from Facebook and other social networks has "roughly tripled – from 7% to 20% – since 2010. And the proportion of social networkers who regularly get news there has more than doubled, from 16% to 36%."
The percentage of young adults getting news socially has increased from about 20 percent in 2010 to about 33 percent in 2012.
A fact sheet released today shows the median age of Facebook users is now 22. That's down from August 2008 when the median age peaked at 26. In January of 2006, the median user age was 19.
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Jeff Sonderman
Sep. 27, 2012
2:05 pm
Pew
For American adults under 30, social media has far surpassed newspapers and has equaled TV as a primary source of daily news, according to
a new study of news consumption trends by the Pew Research Center for the People & The Press.
The study found 33 percent of those young adults got news from social networks the day before, while 34 percent watched TV news and just 13 percent read print or digital newspaper content.
Overall, the study says, the major trends driving the growth and change of digital news are social media, as well as the rapid adoption of mobile Internet devices.
The top-level trends in social media news consumption:
- 19 percent of all Americans got news from a social network like Facebook, Google+ or LinkedIn yesterday (up from 9 percent in 2010).
- Among people using social networks, 36 percent got news there yesterday (up from 19 percent in 2010).
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- Overall use of social media for news consumption is growing, and the rates are similar across three age groups from 18 to 39.
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Jeff Sonderman
July 26, 2012
2:58 pm
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Jeff Sonderman
June 22, 2012
12:26 pm
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Jeff Sonderman
June 21, 2012
1:39 pm
Oriella |
Journalism.co.uk
An annual
global survey of journalists by public relations firm Oriella finds that more than half now use social media as a source of story ideas, and nearly half use blogs to find angles and ideas.
Among journalists in North America, the rates were even higher -- 62 percent said they draw news from trusted sources on Twitter or Facebook, while 64 percent rely on well-known blogs as a source of story ideas. However, journalists said they were much less inclined to use information from an unfamiliar social media user or blog.
The study's findings are significant, but so is its margin of error: It's based on an online survey of 613 journalists in 16 countries, with likely fewer than 100 respondents in the U.S. and Canada.
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Jeff Sonderman
June 19, 2012
12:06 pm
DanZarrella.com
Social media data cruncher Dan Zarrella has released a new analysis showing what types of Facebook posts tend to get more likes, comments and shares.
Four lessons really stand out as important and useful:
- Photos get far more likes
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Jeff Sonderman
June 14, 2012
12:52 pm
The Colorado Gazette reporter was told to remove a link on his Facebook wall to a news article about the parent company’s sale. He refused, saying it was relevant news, factual and did not express a personal opinion.
Tryon had a meeting scheduled today on the matter and thought he might even get fired. Now he tweets that he's been placed on "administrative leave" pending an investigation.
He tells the Colorado Springs Independent that he was placed on leave
after he said he planned to bring his lawyer to an HR meeting.
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Kelly Fincham
June 11, 2012
10:12 am
Journalists using Facebook as a reporting tool have likely faced some ethical questions about what is and isn’t appropriate — particularly when it comes to the information they post and the way they interact with sources on the site.
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Andrew Beaujon
May 18, 2012
10:33 am
CNN | GigaOm | BuzzFeed | The Atlantic
Facebook's IPO
just created a lot of billionaires. Probably not that many of them work in journalism. But journalists, Kristie Lu Stout argues,
create part of Facebook's value. "Journalists have been flocking to Facebook to create content and connections on a platform that the company can use for all time," she writes. "Not only that, we're feeding an advertising rival that's only going to get bigger after Friday's IPO."
Facebook's an advertising rival
because it's really a media company, Mathew Ingram writes: "Like Twitter, the content within Facebook may be generated entirely by users, but the business model is all about advertising, just like any other media entity."
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