The Role of News on Facebook

A new study says young people, like you, are more likely to be incidentally exposed to news via Facebook than actually watching a newscast or reading a newspaper.

In particular, younger adults, who as a group are less engaged than their elders are with news on other platforms, are as engaged, if not more so, with news on Facebook. Young people (18- to 29– year-olds) account for about a third, 34%, of Facebook news consumers. That far outpaces the 20% that they account for among Facebook users who do not get news on the site.

What’s more, these 18- to 29-year-olds get news on Facebook across topics at roughly the same levels as older age groups, turn there as often for breaking news and deem the site as important a source of news.

Your thoughts?

http://www.journalism.org/2013/10/24/the-role-of-news-on-facebook/

Future of Journalism?

An episode of Portlandia included a sketch where a local paper was bought out by a blog.


Some of the lines are:

• They probably read every fifth word... so just make it those five words.
• When you make things Top 10 automatically it makes it easy enough for people to digest it.
• People don't read articles anymore and we don't want to provide people things don't care about. 

Full article by NewsCastic 

Do you think the future of journalism will be similar? 

Do you see yourself in this story?

I found this report about Next-Gen Reporters accurately represents most of the journalism students I've encounter over my two years of teaching at Maryland. Do you agree? Why or why not?

I am a fan of listicles, this one has 14. They are part of the reason Buzzfeed is so popular. I like # 5. Read the story for more.

5. They believe that a little irreverence and opinion in the news might not be such a bad thing. Think BuzzFeed and The Daily Show instead of CBS Evening News with Walter Cronkite.

All U Need 2 Know About Next-Gen Reporters
In the spirit of BuzzFeed, here are 14 not-really-so-amazing things you need to know about the next generation of television journalists, based on my recent visit to Arizona State University's Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communications.

Storify of #oj13fall Twitter coverage of Povich panel

Storify created based on #oj13fall.

This is what it look like in Storify
http://storify.com/richmurphydc/covering-the-povich-panel


This is what it looks like embedded in a webpage
http://www.jclass.umd.edu/652352/2013fall0401/povichstorify.html