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Study charts 'most social' publishers on Facebook in August

BBC is the news outlet with most story shares on Twitter, according to a study of social media shares in August

Posted by Sarah Marshall on 27/09/13

How social media helped drive launch of Cake Decorating magazine

Cake Decorating magazine, which is owned by publisher De Agostini, launched in the UK last year, harnesses social networks to engage with readers

Posted by Rachel Bartlett on 25/09/13

Is there more to hidden traffic than 'dark social'?

Shining a light on 'dark social', 'dark search' and 'dark secure'

Posted by Sarah Marshall on 23/09/13

NowThis News publishing Instagram video interview series

The video site will publish a new 'instaview' clip each day this week, offering soundbite answers from an interview with Newark mayor Cory Booker

Posted by Rachel Bartlett on 16/09/13

How Joota puts content at the heart of social networking

The platform lets users create Joota cards for particular pieces of content, where they can host conversations, and curate cards into followable groups

Posted by Rachel Bartlett on 12/09/13

Storify acquired by social media curation platform Livefyre

Storify will continue to offer a free option and founders Burt Herman and Xavier Damman will join the Livefyre team

Posted by Sarah Marshall on 09/09/13

Selected news outlets get a feed of public Facebook posts

In the same way as broadcasters and websites can display tweets to show reaction to a particular news story, seven news organisations now have access to a feed of public Facebook posts

Posted by Sarah Marshall on 09/09/13

Guardian's Joanna Geary to join Twitter UK

Joanna Geary, who is currently social and communities editor at the Guardian, will be responsible for Twitter's partnerships with news outlets in the UK

Posted by Rachel Bartlett on 06/09/13

7 insights into social strategy at The Economist

As The Economist celebrates its 170th anniversary this month, we look at how it has adapted in the digital and social age

Posted by Rachel Bartlett on 05/09/13

#Tip: Search Twitter using Topsy (which now has every tweet since 2006)

Topsy now has every tweet sent since the dawn of Twitter – giving you access to 425 billion pieces of content

Posted by Sarah Marshall on 04/09/13

Storyful launches journalist tool for searching social media

The free open-source Chrome browser extension – called Storyful MultiSearch – has been created for use in newsrooms

Posted by Sarah Marshall on 30/08/13

Storytelling tool Meograph introduces Facebook tagging

The integration means a user's Facebook friends can be tagged in Meographs, with plans to also introduce Facebook pages and 'custom-defined tags' shortly

Posted by Rachel Bartlett on 29/08/13

All news sites can now embed Facebook posts

Facebook has rolled out the embed functionality to all users, having tested it with five pilot news outlets

Posted by Sarah Marshall on 22/08/13

Channel 4 News 'pops-up' around the UK

Channel 4 News's week-long programme of 'pop-ups' in five locations across the UK started today in Cornwall

Posted by Rachel Bartlett on 19/08/13

10 social media engagement tips from the Financial Times

We speak to communities editor Sarah Laitner to find out how the FT uses social media

Posted by Sarah Marshall on 19/08/13

New York Times launches IFTTT channel

IFTTT – or If This Then That – lets you connect different accounts and readers of NYTimes.com can now auto-save stories, auto-post stories and receive email and SMS alerts

Posted by Sarah Marshall on 12/08/13

How Washington Post's new online show integrates social

Launching today, WaPo's online TV show On Background will feature interviews on key news subjects, with the social media community helping to fuel the conversation

Posted by Rachel Bartlett on 29/07/13

Royal baby coverage quiz: Guess the news site traffic stats

Test your knowledge with today's quiz, which looks at some of the traffic-related results reported for news websites in the week Prince George was born

Posted by Sarah Marshall and Rachel Bartlett on 26/07/13

#Tip: Add a filter to hide royal baby tweets

How to set up a filter in TweetDeck to exclude certain keywords

Posted by Sarah Marshall on 23/07/13

Five years of social media evolution at Al Jazeera

Evolution and revolution: Journalism.co.uk speaks to the head of social media at Al Jazeera about some of the key moments in reporting elections, protests and revolutions

Posted by Sarah Marshall on 26/06/13

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Five key courses for journalists in September

We are organising courses in data journalism, iPhone reporting, open data for journalists and creating a buzz on social media

Posted by Sarah Marshall on 31 July 2013

Beet.TV: The New York Times, real-time advertising and Twitter trending data

Beet.TV has an interesting video with Michael Zimbalist, vice president for research & development, and operations at the New York Times, in which he discusses a new advertising tool called Spark which utilises the Times’s data on stories trending on social media. According to Beet.TV the tool “serves display advertising into stories as they are [...]

Posted by Rachel Bartlett on 19 February 2013

Hurricane Sandy and verification: 4 key takeaways from Storyful Hangout

A look at the four main points which came out of a Google+ Hangout, hosted by Storyful on the subject of verification during Hurricane Sandy

Posted by Rob Grant on 11 December 2012

Study: Fewer UK journalists feel social media improves productivity in 2012 than in 2011

An annual study into how UK journalists feel social media impacts on their work was announced this week by Canterbury Christ Church University and public relations and media services outlet Cision. The report’s findings are based on 769 responses from UK journalists. According to a release from the university the study found an “increasing number [...]

Posted by Rachel Bartlett on 19 September 2012

#wef12: Why news outlets must embrace a participatory culture

Al Jazeera's Riyaad Minty and Mark Little's Storyful on why news outlets must understand the relationship between news reporting and social media

Posted by Rachel Bartlett on 4 September 2012

Guardian US, #smarttakes and 'pop-up aggregation'

The Guardian's US operation announces the launch of a new socially-driven aggregation series called #smarttakes

Posted by Rachel Bartlett on 19 July 2012

How important are 'tweet' and 'like' buttons to news publishers?

A conversation was sparked on the effect of social media sharing buttons by the designer Oliver Reichenstein on his blog informationArchitects

Posted by Daniel Bentley on 1 June 2012

Online news startups need help converting readers into supporters

A report by J-Lab has found that even though online news start-ups have access to a wide range of social media tools, they struggle with how to measure their impact

Posted by Daniel Bentley on 31 May 2012

#GEN2012: Interactive graphics case studies from the Guardian

The Guardian's Alastair Dant shares the news outlet's approach to using interactivity to present data and stories to their audience

Posted by Rachel Bartlett on 30 May 2012

Bitly launches 'bitmark' social bookmarking service

Bitly, the popular link shortener used by lots of news websites, announces its ‘bitmark’ service

Posted by Daniel Bentley on 29 May 2012

Guardian's n0tice launches Facebook sharing app

Online noticeboard n0tice launches app to auto-post updates to Facebook

Posted by Sarah Marshall on 1 May 2012

Tool of the week for journalists: Muck Rack

Muck Rack is a site that aggregates Twitter and social media feeds for thousands of professional journalists

Posted by James Chapple on 5 April 2012

Economist seeks to build relationships with 1m Facebook fans

'It's about building relationships on Facebook and monetizing outside', according to the Economist's global publisher, digital editions

Posted by Sarah Marshall on 29 March 2012

Searchmetrics: Financial Times is news outlet with most Google+ followers

Daily Mail and Telegraph stories get most Google +1 recommendations

Posted by Sarah Marshall on 22 March 2012

Social predicted to overtake search as Guardian traffic driver

'It's only a matter of time until social overtakes search for the Guardian,' says Tanya Cordrey, director of digital development at Guardian News and Media

Posted by Sarah Marshall on 21 March 2012

Digital news editor @fieldproducer leaving Sky News

Sky News's digital news editor Neal Mann, known to 43,000 people on Twitter as @fieldproducer, has announced he has decided to leave the broadcaster.

Posted by Paul McNally on 19 March 2012

Sky News Twitter restrictions - where do you stand?

Sky News emails staff telling them not to retweet - a round-up of opinion

Posted by Paul McNally on 8 February 2012

Tool of the week for journalists - Rippla, for tracking the social 'ripples' of news stories

A tool for tracking the sharing of news stories on social networks such as Facebook and Twitter

Posted by Sarah Marshall on 20 December 2011

Tool of the week for journalists - Playground, to monitor social media analytics

This new platform helps you monitor Facebook, Twitter, blogs and could become a favourite tool of data journalists

Posted by Marianne Bouchart on 29 November 2011

Rippla, a site to monitor the social media 'ripples' of news stories, launches

You can now see how stories from the UK's top 10 news sites are shared on social media – and view the social media 'ripples' created by stories on your own news site

Posted by Sarah Marshall on 17 November 2011

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