Tag : journalism

  • Journalism and Social Media
    by Jo Caudronon April 11, 2011in the categories Conversations, Skills

    Two weeks ago, I participated in an interesting debate on how journalism and social media do or don’t belong together. I played the social media fanboy of the evening, while the other members of the panel were people from traditional media: Michaël Opgenhaffen (researcher and lecturer New Media at Lessius and K.U.L), Alain Gerlache (journalist at RTBF), Ivan De Vadder (political journalist at VRT), Pol Deltour (national secretary of the Vlaamse Vereniging van Journalisten) and Jos Grobben (publisher at Roularta). The debate was lead by Luc Blyaert, editor in chief of Data News.

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  • How social media is beating CNN
    by Steven Van Belleghemon March 16, 2011in the categories Conversations, Skills, Social Web
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    Last Friday, we all witnessed the biggest earthquake in Japanese history. Looking at the images from it was just unbelievable. How did I find out about this drama? Not via CNN, not via the radio news, but by looking at my Twitter stream.

    According to an analysis from Trendrr, which tracks terms on Twitter, the word “earthquake” reached 19,360 tweets per hour when the earthquake first struck, and peaked at 35,430 Twitter posts an hour as people started waking up in the U.S. By late March 11, a total of 246,075 Twitter posts using the term “earthquake” had been posted to the microblogging service.

    More and more we see that consumers pick up breaking news by watching their Twitter timeline.

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