Tag Archives: social media

Apr 25 2013

To 2020 and beyond: threats and opportunities to public service media across Europe

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I recently chaired (and contributed to) an all-day seminar workshop with a group of European public service broadcasters who are trying to (re-)define the trends that are changing their work. Not just journalism, but across the board. They want to … Continue reading

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Mar 14 2013

Newsmaking in the Twittersphere – some new international data on how journalism flows through the microblog network (guest blog) #twitter

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Marco Toledo Bastos is a man with a lot of data on Twitter and how it is used as a stream for accessing news from mainstream journalism brands in a variety of countries. He is a visiting research research fellow at … Continue reading

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Mar 5 2013

What Good Is Twitter? (for public service journalism?) New Polis Report

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How can journalists working in public service newsrooms use social media to improve the quality of their work? Polis has a new report out by EBU Fellow Nadja Hahn that asks, What Use Is Twitter? This research paper is a … Continue reading

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Feb 27 2013

New research: how can social media help journalists connect to black and minority communities? (guest post)

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The UK has never been more diverse than today, with all the positives and problems that go with having lots of different cultures and communities. But is that range of interests reflected in mainstream media? Is it possible that social … Continue reading

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Feb 6 2013

Pharma online: does regulation or corporate social media policy need to change to allow a real dialogue about medicines?

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‘Big Pharma’ is a good example of a major industry that is finding that the Internet is a minefield as well as a field of plenty. It’s a great place to sell your goods and everyone is talking about medicine … Continue reading

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Dec 20 2012

Marketing Medicine Online: Social Media and Pharma – new event Jan 31st

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What do people say about medicines on social networks, and what can both patients and pharmaceutical companies learn from this? This new Polis event, Marketing Medicine Online: Social Media and Pharma will present research by Polis and Human Digital trying … Continue reading

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Nov 2 2012

What it’s like to tell a story without social media and why I will never do so again (Guest blog)

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Imagine doing your journalism without any social media. Imagine your newsroom is actually restricted by law in what social media it can use. That was the situation for Austrian radio correspondent Nadja Hahn who has spent the last month at … Continue reading

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Oct 19 2012

Reith Reinvented: BBC boss explains how new newsroom will ‘allow us to do what we do better.”

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“How many of you would be comfortable explaining quantitative easing to a friend in the pub?” In the room full of LSE students, not a single hand went up in reply to the question posed by Mary Hockaday, Head of … Continue reading

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Oct 13 2012

Ten (at least) Ways That Putting Social Media At The Heart of The Newsroom Improves Public Service Service Journalism

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Nadja Hahn is a business correspondent for ORF, Austrian Radio and an EBU Research Fellow here at Polis. She is researching the public service value of social media. This is her take on a visit to the new BBC integrated … Continue reading

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Sep 24 2012

Help! What is the value of social media to public service journalism?

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Added value for society is generally speaking what public service journalism aims for.  But what’s the public value of a tweet? How should public service journalists use Twitter and the rest of social media to produce public value? How do we … Continue reading

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