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ESPN goes back in time, bans breaking news on Twitter

ESPN’s reporters have a reputation of breaking sports news on Twitter, but the company’s new social media policy has banned it. [...]

August 26th, 2011 | Tags: , , , , | Category: Industry News & Notes, Social Media | 6 comments

WaPo arrives late to NATO story on social media

On August 6 around 2 a.m. local time, a NATO helicopter carrying U.S. Special Forces troops crashed in eastern Afghanistan.

The Washington Post had a reporter in person and on the story – but it took a long time for anyone to notice on its social media channels.

A student from my summer social media class at Georgetown [...]

August 22nd, 2011 | Tags: , , , , | Category: Social Media, Twitter | Leave a comment

Facebook comments can’t guarantee a lack of anonymity

There’s a conventional wisdom out there in the online journalism world that: 1.) News site comments will automatically be better if people have to use real names, and 2.) Using Facebook for your comments will accomplish this.

I’ve said many times before that I don’t think anonymity is the problem. My campaign on that seems to be [...]

August 19th, 2011 | Tags: , , , , , , | Category: Community Engagement, Facebook, Industry News & Notes | One comment