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• 15 Dec 09
  

  Jere Rinne

  This is good list. Only way find a new ways to use social media is experimenting a lot.

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• 26 Sep 09
  

  Samar Ahsan

  Though many professors are still experimenting and learning how these tools can be used, below are 10 ways journalism schools are teaching students to use social media.

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• 02 Sep 09
  

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• 04 Aug 09
  

  Ronda Wery

  With news organizations beginning to create special positions to manage the use of social media tools, such as the recently appointed social editor at The New York Times, journalism schools are starting to recognize the need to integrate social media into their curricula. That doesn’t mean having a class on Facebook (Facebook) or Twitter (Twitter), which many college students already know inside and out, but instead means that professors are delving into how these tools can be applied to enrich the craft of reporting and producing the news and ultimately telling the story in the best possible way.

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  • With news organizations beginning to create special positions to manage the use of social media tools, such as the recently appointed social editor at The New York Times, journalism schools are starting to recognize the need to integrate social media into their curricula. That doesn’t mean having a class on Facebook () or Twitter (), which many college students already know inside and out, but instead means that professors are delving into how these tools can be applied to enrich the craft of reporting and producing the news and ultimately telling the story in the best possible way.

  • 1. Promoting Content

    
    

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    Social media tools are bringing readers to news sites and in many cases are increasing their Web-traffic. This isn’t just through the news organizations’ own social media accounts, but those of their writers that tweet, post, share and send links to their organization’s content. Each writer has a social network, and using social media tools to promote and distribute content increases the potential readership of the article being shared.

    
    

    Sree Sreenivasan, dean of student affairs at Columbia Graduate School of Journalism, said this is one of the most basic and yet very important social media uses for journalists.

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  • • 3. News Gathering and Research

      
      

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      The power of real-time search is providing journalists with up-to-the-second information on the latest developments of any news, trends and happenings, worldwide.

      
      

      Jeff Jarvis, a professor and director of interactive media at the City University of New York’s Graduate School of Journalism, said it’s important for students to know how to use real-time searches to gather information and keep up on what is breaking. This includes, but is not limited to, using search on Twitter, FriendFeed (), OneRiot, Tweetmeme, Scoopler, and SearchMerge.

    • 4. Crowdsourcing and Building a Source List

      
      

      ---

      
      

      It’s amazing how many websites don’t include their staff’s contact information, and the WhitePages really no longer cut it. Luckily, because of the nature of social media in networking, most people post their contact info on their profiles. Social media tools are becoming vital in building source lists. One can track now fairly easily down a source on Facebook or Twitter and send them a message. (Of course, picking up the phone too still can’t hurt.)

      
      

      Students are also being taught the power crowdsourcing using social media. A journalist can tweet a question involving their reporting or announce that they are looking for a source via their FriendFeed and get some remarkable responses.

    • 5. Publishing with Social Tools

      
      

      ---

      
      

      There are many social media tools that journalists can use to publish information, and this variety is something that journalism professors are encouraging students to explore. Publishing via social media tools can be as simple as updating readers or “followers” on Twitter during a breaking news event or building an entire news site focused around Facebook connectivity and conversations about local news – something Northwestern University students created with “NewsMixer” as a project at the Medill School of Journalism last year.

    • 6. Blog and Website Integration

      
      

      ---

      
      

      Because so many news sites are incorporating live blogging into their daily dose of content and conversation with readers, Katy Culver, a faculty member in the journalism school at University of Wisconsin at Madison, had her students learn how to use CoveritLive, which can be embedded within a site.

    • 7. Building Community and Rich Content

      
      

      ---

      
      

      Sure a journalist can use social media tools to have a conversation with their audience, but what’s the point? The greater goal is to build a community through engagement. Crowdsourcing, live blogging, tweeting — it’s about building a network around issues that matter to the community. In a way, social networks are the new editorial page, rich with opinions and ideas.

    • 8. Personal Brand

      
      

      ---

      
      

      Students can’t stay in school forever — eventually they need to get jobs. Social networks can be used to build a personal brand that can help students land a reporting gig after college. But Jones emphasized this applies to students only, which is what he teaches.

    • 9. Ethics: Remember, You’re Still a Journalist

      
      

      ---

      
      

      Sreenivasan from Columbia said there are no hard and fast rules for ethics and social media yet. But told me that what a person posts or shares or produces on social media reflects on the person’s judgment and students should be cautious. He used the example of broadcasting your affiliations on Facebook through notifications on your wall.

    • 10. Experiment, Experiment, Experiment

      
      

      ---

      
      

      Sreenivasan, Culver, Jarvis and Jones all pointed to the importance of students experimenting with social media tools. For example, if Flickr isn’t meeting your needs, try another tool that suits your use better. Sreenivasan pointed out that we are all still learning the best practices of social media. Journalism students experimenting with these tools can learn how to apply them once they join the workforce.

      
      

      Here are a few tips from Bradshaw for how teachers can encourage social media experimentation:

      
      

      
      - Use the tools themselves to teach the class. Use them in any setting possible.
      
      - Do it publicly and socially. For example, Bradshaw paired students up with “Twentors” to help students that were new to Twitter.
      
      - Less talk, more action. Put the students out there and get them using the tools one by one.
      

• 31 Jul 09
  

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  1. Promoting Content
  2. Interviewing
  3. News Gathering and Research
  4. Crowdsourcing and Building a Source List
  5. Publishing with Social Tools
  6. Blog and Website Integration
  7. Building Community and Rich Content
  8. Personal Brand
  9. Ethics: Remember, Y

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• 26 Jul 09
  

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• 23 Jul 09
  

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  Though many professors are still experimenting and learning how these tools can be used, below are 10 ways journalism schools are teaching students to use social media.

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• 18 Jul 09
  

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• 17 Jul 09
  

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• 16 Jul 09
  

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• 06 Jul 09
  

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• 03 Jul 09
  

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• 01 Jul 09
  

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  "Though many professors are still experimenting and learning how these tools can be used, below are 10 ways journalism schools are teaching students to use social media."

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• 29 Jun 09
  

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  • With news organizations beginning to create special positions to manage the use
    of social media tools, such as the recently appointed social editor at
    The New York Times, journalism schools are starting to recognize the need to
    integrate social media into their curricula. That doesn’t mean having a class on
    Facebook() or Twitter(), which many college students
    already know inside and out, but instead means that professors are delving into
    how these tools can be applied to enrich the craft of reporting and producing
    the news and ultimately telling the story in the best possible way.
• 24 Jun 09
  

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  • • news organizations beginning to create special positions to manage the use of social media tools
    • news organizations beginning to create special positions to manage the use of social media tools
    • Social media tools are bringing readers to news sites and in many cases are increasing their Web-traffic.
    • using services like Skype allows journalists to interview international sources quite easily – and affordably
    • it’s important for students to know how to use real-time searches to gather information and keep up on what is breaking
    • A journalist can tweet a question involving their reporting or announce that they are looking for a source via their FriendFeed and get some remarkable responses.
    • the most basic tools that students should know how to use are WordpressWordPress for blogging and site building, Twitter for live updates, Facebook for posting articles or videos, DeliciousDelicious for bookmarking, FlickrFlickr for photos or videos, and YouTubeYouTube for video.
    • “We used to always have the audience come to us, but that’s not the cast anymore,”
    • sing live blogging is a great tool for readers to get a chance to ask questions of an expert, reporter, or editor at a news organization
    • it’s about hosting a conversation with the readers and using it within content creates an interactive experience
    • The greater goal is to build a community through engagement. Crowdsourcing, live blogging, tweeting — it’s about building a network around issues that matter to the community. In a way, social networks are the new editorial page, rich with opinions and ideas.
    • Social networks can be used to build a personal brand that can help students land a reporting gig after college.
    • a journalist is representing their organization and not their name, and that applies to their use of social media
    • what a person posts or shares or produces on social media reflects on the person’s judgment and students should be cautious
    • remember that employers no longer just look at your resume.
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• 23 Jun 09
  

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  It's nice to see Journalism Schools recognize the importance of social media. Especially if they don't want to turn out unemployable students.

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  "With news organizations beginning to create special positions to manage the use of social media tools, such as the recently appointed social editor at The New York Times, journalism schools are starting to recognize the need to integrate social media into their curricula. That doesn’t mean having a class on Facebook (Facebook) or Twitter (Twitter), which many college students already know inside and out, but instead means that professors are delving into how these tools can be applied to enrich the craft of reporting and producing the news and ultimately telling the story in the best possible way.
  
  And though many professors are still experimenting and learning how these tools can be used, below are the 10 ways journalism schools are currently teaching students to use social media. Please share in the comments others that you have found to be important and effective as well."

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  • professors are delving into how these tools can be applied to enrich the craft of reporting and producing the news and ultimately telling the story in the best possible way.
  • Social media tools are bringing readers to news sites and in many cases are increasing their Web-traffic.
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  • • email interviews have become regularly used by news reporters. But the same concept can be achieved through a Facebook message or chat, Google Talk, a short exchange via Seesmic (), or one of the most useful apps in a journalist’s arsenal: Skype
    • it’s important for students to know how to use real-time searches to gather information and keep up on what is breaking.
    • Sreenivasan said searches on social media sites can point journalists to supplementary information for their reporting. These sites can also help in the process of crowdsourced news gathering.
    • Social media tools are becoming vital in building source lists. One can track now fairly easily down a source on Facebook or Twitter and send them a message.
    • Paul Bradshaw, senior lecturer of online journalism and magazines at Birmingham City University, said the most basic tools that students should know how to use are Wordpress () for blogging and site building, Twitter for live updates, Facebook for posting articles or videos, Delicious () for bookmarking, Flickr () for photos or videos, and YouTube () for video.
    • Tools like CoveritLive also include integration with Twitter, Qik for live video, or YouTube pre-recorded videos.
    • social media should help journalists do their job and be integrated into their reporting, but not take it over. Content is still king.
    • Social networks can be used to build a personal brand that can help students land a reporting gig after college.
    • we are all still learning the best practices of social media. Journalism students experimenting with these tools can learn how to apply them once they join the workforce.

    • Here are a few tips from Bradshaw for how teachers can encourage social media experimentation:

      
      

      
      - Use the tools themselves to teach the class. Use them in any setting possible.
      
      - Do it publicly and socially. For example, Bradshaw paired students up with “Twentors” to help students that were new to Twitter.
      
      - Less talk, more action. Put the students out there and get them using the tools one by one.
      

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  With news organizations beginning to create special positions to manage the use of social media tools, such as the recently appointed social editor at The New York Times, journalism schools are starting to recognize the need to integrate social media into their curricula. That doesn’t mean having a class on Facebook (Facebook) or Twitter (Twitter), which many college students already know inside and out, but instead means that professors are delving into how these tools can be applied to enrich the craft of reporting and producing the news and ultimately telling the story in the best possible way.

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  • With news organizations beginning to create special positions to manage the use of social media tools, such as the recently appointed social editor at The New York Times, journalism schools are starting to recognize the need to integrate social media into their curricula. That doesn’t mean having a class on Facebook () or Twitter (), which many college students already know inside and out, but instead means that professors are delving into how these tools can be applied to enrich the craft of reporting and producing the news and ultimately telling the story in the best possible way.

  • 1. Promoting Content

    
    

    ---

    
    

    Social media tools are bringing readers to news sites and in many cases are increasing their Web-traffic. This isn’t just through the news organizations’ own social media accounts, but those of their writers that tweet, post, share and send links to their organization’s content. Each writer has a social network, and using social media tools to promote and distribute content increases the potential readership of the article being shared.

    
    

    Sree Sreenivasan, dean of student affairs at Columbia Graduate School of Journalism, said this is one of the most basic and yet very important social media uses for journalists.

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  • • 3. News Gathering and Research

      
      

      ---

      
      

      The power of real-time search is providing journalists with up-to-the-second information on the latest developments of any news, trends and happenings, worldwide.

      
      

      Jeff Jarvis, a professor and director of interactive media at the City University of New York’s Graduate School of Journalism, said it’s important for students to know how to use real-time searches to gather information and keep up on what is breaking. This includes, but is not limited to, using search on Twitter, FriendFeed (), OneRiot, Tweetmeme, Scoopler, and SearchMerge.

    • 4. Crowdsourcing and Building a Source List

      
      

      ---

      
      

      It’s amazing how many websites don’t include their staff’s contact information, and the WhitePages really no longer cut it. Luckily, because of the nature of social media in networking, most people post their contact info on their profiles. Social media tools are becoming vital in building source lists. One can track now fairly easily down a source on Facebook or Twitter and send them a message. (Of course, picking up the phone too still can’t hurt.)

      
      

      Students are also being taught the power crowdsourcing using social media. A journalist can tweet a question involving their reporting or announce that they are looking for a source via their FriendFeed and get some remarkable responses.

    • 5. Publishing with Social Tools

      
      

      ---

      
      

      There are many social media tools that journalists can use to publish information, and this variety is something that journalism professors are encouraging students to explore. Publishing via social media tools can be as simple as updating readers or “followers” on Twitter during a breaking news event or building an entire news site focused around Facebook connectivity and conversations about local news – something Northwestern University students created with “NewsMixer” as a project at the Medill School of Journalism last year.

    • 6. Blog and Website Integration

      
      

      ---

      
      

      Because so many news sites are incorporating live blogging into their daily dose of content and conversation with readers, Katy Culver, a faculty member in the journalism school at University of Wisconsin at Madison, had her students learn how to use CoveritLive, which can be embedded within a site.

    • 7. Building Community and Rich Content

      
      

      ---

      
      

      Sure a journalist can use social media tools to have a conversation with their audience, but what’s the point? The greater goal is to build a community through engagement. Crowdsourcing, live blogging, tweeting — it’s about building a network around issues that matter to the community. In a way, social networks are the new editorial page, rich with opinions and ideas.

    • 8. Personal Brand

      
      

      ---

      
      

      Students can’t stay in school forever — eventually they need to get jobs. Social networks can be used to build a personal brand that can help students land a reporting gig after college. But Jones emphasized this applies to students only, which is what he teaches.

    • 9. Ethics: Remember, You’re Still a Journalist

      
      

      ---

      
      

      Sreenivasan from Columbia said there are no hard and fast rules for ethics and social media yet. But told me that what a person posts or shares or produces on social media reflects on the person’s judgment and students should be cautious. He used the example of broadcasting your affiliations on Facebook through notifications on your wall.

    • 10. Experiment, Experiment, Experiment

      
      

      ---

      
      

      Sreenivasan, Culver, Jarvis and Jones all pointed to the importance of students experimenting with social media tools. For example, if Flickr isn’t meeting your needs, try another tool that suits your use better. Sreenivasan pointed out that we are all still learning the best practices of social media. Journalism students experimenting with these tools can learn how to apply them once they join the workforce.

      
      

      Here are a few tips from Bradshaw for how teachers can encourage social media experimentation:

      
      

      
      - Use the tools themselves to teach the class. Use them in any setting possible.
      
      - Do it publicly and socially. For example, Bradshaw paired students up with “Twentors” to help students that were new to Twitter.
      
      - Less talk, more action. Put the students out there and get them using the tools one by one.
      

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