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The founding director of a Political Management master's degree program at the George Washington University surveyed 371 print and web journalists from September to October of last year, with the aim of establishing to what extent social media tools are used in the research and distribution of articles.

The results of the online survey, reported on the university's newspaper website, found that 56 percent of those surveyed said that social media was important or somewhat important for reporting and producing stories, with the overwhelming majority citing the internet as the starting point for their research- despite the fact that 84 percent said news and information delivered via social media was slightly less or much less reliable than news delivered via traditional media.

The past few years has seen the explosive growth of social networking sites Twitter and Facebook, and a dramatic downturn in advertising revenue that has set about ravaging the newspaper industry. PoynterOnline has now reported new enterprises between the two industries however, which could prove profitable for both.  

Few news outlets are without their own Twitter account these days, using the site's micro-blogging capabilities as a means to distribute stories and attract a wider audience. The Austin American-Statesman is using theirs to sell tweets to local business, which can advertise their enterprises on the newspaper's Twitter account.

After months of much hype and speculation, Steve Jobs finally took to the stage to unveil Apple's new highly anticipated tablet computer - the iPad.

With its official introduction at an event in San Francisco yesterday, Steve Jobs has finally laid many rumors about what the electronic device can do to rest, while igniting hopes about the iPad's ability to bring new life to 'old media' and to revamp the e-reader market.
 

 

"Blogging is the biggest change to BBC journalism", Kevin Marsh, the head of the corporation's College of Journalism, said at the Journalism rewired conference. He added that blogging by senior figures like Robert Peston and Nick Robinson has helped to fundamentally change the way BBC delivers its news.

Kevin Marsh told conference attendees that in the last couple of years, the BBC had shifted its news focus away from its traditional TV bulletins, adopting a "live and continuous" model centered on multimedia content on the web, according to the PressGazette.

Following the explosive growth of micro-blogging site Twitter, Nielsen figures published back in November showed a decline in U.S. traffic to the site by a considerable 27.8 percent between the months of September and October. Indeed, other third party sources pointed to the flatlining growth of the website also.

Evan Williams, Twitter co-founder, announced that Monday saw the site's highest-usage day ever - tweeting the news no less. He added that he expected to see the increase in volume of users continue.

Over the last year, newspapers have successfully utilized the micro-blogging social networking site, Twitter, to distribute their content and build up their audience.

However, newspapers have not started cashing in directly from the tweets published on Twitter - at least not yet. As Ad Age reports, early exploration from New York to Montreal is showing how newspaper publishers could cash in on their 140 character tweets.

News on your mobile phone is becoming ever more popular in the west, with The Guardian and The Daily Mirror the latest newspapers to release iPhone apps. But as The Guardian's Digital Content blog reminds us, mobile phones have been an important tool in news distribution in Africa for some time.

Rather than using bandwidth-hungry applications, though, text messages are used to disseminate news headlines, in a broadcast model that mirrors the widespread use of radio as a news medium on the continent. Newspapers are a less important news source outside urban areas, and access to the internet is not yet widespread.

A study into the usage of the microblogging site Twitter has revealed that whilst 60 percent of Internet users in France are aware of this sites existence, a mere 9 percent are active users. But things are changing.

According to comScore, 1.5 million French Internet users successfully surfed their way onto the site last October - pretty much a volte face in comparison to the miniscule 78.000 unique visitors the site received in October 2008.

Following an overwhelming period of growth, Twitter.com is now experiencing a decline in its US traffic to the micro-blogging site, eMarketer has reported. The latest Nielsen figures put the fall at a considerable 27.8 percent between September and October 2009, receiving 18.9 million unique hits.

Fellow market data provider, comScore, also noted the trend, recording an 8.1 percent decline for the month of October. Compete registered only a 2.1 percent slump for the same period however.

Biz Stone, co-founder of Twitter, said that he would "love to see what happens" if Rupert Murdoch goes ahead with his plans to block News International titles from Google's search index and implement his proposed paywall. Speaking at an event organised by the National Endowment for Science, Technology and the Arts (Nesta) in London, Stone described the media mogul's schemes as futile and likened them to an attempt at putting "the genie back in the bottle", the Guardian reported.

In light of Murdoch's recent accusations that Google and other web companies are "stealing" content from his titles, Stone responded that the news chief should instead be "looking at it as an opportunity to do something radically different and find out how to make a ton of money out of being radically open rather than some money by being ridiculously closed".

As journalism morphs in the digital age to become more comprehensive than just the written word, newsrooms are looking for more efficient ways to get their stories out across all mediums, fast.
 
One proposed method is platform journalism, a notion that content is developed centrally, with the presentation later fine-tuned according to whether it is for television, internet, radio or print.

Gazette Communications in Cedar Rapids, Iowa is amongst the latest that has taken this concept, brought it to life and has been 'producing content' since February.  Gazette Communications, which owns newspaper The Gazette, local TV station, KCRG and website, Gazette Online, relocated all of its reporters, photographers, and other journalists from these outlets to a new "content room" at the newspaper, reports Editor & Publisher.

Al Jazeera English has launched a new blogging network, reported Journalism.co.uk.  AJE Head of Online Mohamed Nanabhay said that he is "reasonably excited about it," although aware that it is something that many news organisations already have in place.

The blogs are divided up by geographical area: Africa, Asia, Americas, Europe and Middle East, with the addition of a business section. A selection of correspondents and presenters have been writing posts. 

Video blogging, quite simply a blog which employs video as its medium, is a phenomenon which hasn't shown the same success as its text-based parent amongst everyday web users. Despite the fact the 'tools of the trade' - cameras, editing software, and a platform to broadcast - are no longer unaffordable or complex obstacles, the significant investment of time to produce something that is of a publishable quality is still a drawback for many.

Adam Singer, in his blog The Future Buzz, writes that in video blogging professionals still have a 'leg-up': "In text-based communications, professional writers don't... In fact, amateurs are in many cases more compelling than the professionals of yesterday because they are not bound by rules that constrain and constrict the emotion possible through words." In the realm of video, however, Singer says: "It's hard to compete against professional personalities who have honed their skills in a competitive environment and have sharp writing and production staffs behind them."

A study by The Nielsen Company revealed last week that the time spent on social network and blogging sites accounted for 17% of total time spent on the Internet in August 2009. This figure is three times what people were spending on such sites a year ago.

Social networking site, Twitter, is on the verge of receiving a cash injection of $100 million, reports The Guardian.

The San Francisco-based start-up, which allows people to post short 140-character messages via the Internet or SMS, is expected to secure the funding from Insight, a New York venture capital firm, and mutual fund, T. Rowe Price.

Big revolutions call out for big manifestos; and the on-going revolution in journalism, with specific reference to online journalism, is no different.

Kress.de has reported that a dedicated group of internet journalists and net-experts put together and published an "Internet-Manifesto"; a document that seeks to lay out a road map for the future of journalism, in consideration of the prevalence of online publications in our digital age. The manifesto, which was originally written in German, has since been translated into no less than nine further languages - and the project continues.