Rising Star winner Adam Harris is the staff writer at The Atlantic, covering education. He had a winding path to journalism. He always knew he wanted to do something he found important and necessary. “I was always interested in telling stories,” he says.
Rising Star Georgi Kantchev’s career has spanned the dawn of the social media age. When he was first published, people were only beginning to talk about how important digital was. “It’s a competition for eyeballs in the end,” he says.
Just as most companies have employee codes of conduct and standards, many are now crafting similar codes for employees’ online behavior. Coming up with the right strategy for your newsroom isn’t easy, however, and there are many factors to consider.
Over the past few years, Instagram has been growing faster than ever. The popular photo-sharing app has added hundreds of millions of users each year since 2014, and that includes news outlets and journalists. But how should the news media be using the platform that truly believes a picture is worth a thousand words?
According to Pew Research Center, approximately 67 percent of American adults get at least some of their news from social media. So if you want your news to be what people are looking at, you need to find them where they are. That means, yes, tweeting.
News Media Alliance President and CEO David Chavern today called on the major technology platforms, namely Facebook and Google, to take responsibility for the role they play in deciding, via their “secret algorithms,” how and to whom news is distributed, and the subsequent impact of those decisions on civil society.
As simple as Twitter may seem, it’s not entirely intuitive how journalists should use it. Should it be used as a self-promotion tool? A way to crowdsource stories? A way to engage with readers? A way to have fun? The journalists who are most successful on Twitter use it for all of those things, and move seamlessly between those modes of engagement. We look at those journalists and what you can learn from their use of the social media platform.
When I was freelancing with VICE News, my editor and I were never in the same place. I worked remotely
As we all know, social media is even more polarized — and polarizing — than the rest of American society.
I get most of my news from my iPhone. I still subscribe to print newspapers, but in a 24/7 news
