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Guest post: social media in New Zealand journalism

I’m heading away on holiday for a week so I’m leaving you with this guest post from recently graduated Whitireia journalism student Owen Winter, who has talked to some New Zealand journalists about the use of social media in reporting: the pitfalls, benefits, attitudes and what comes next. Owen is looking for a journalism job [...]
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Links: China Daily hits Europe and the Washington Post, new ABCs for the UK, and a ‘Facebook’ newspaper

United Kingdom: China Daily Launches European Edition Publicitas China Daily, China’s leading English-language newspaper, will appear as a new weekly edition on UK news stands from 3 December. The European edition will be distributed in the UK and from Brussels, building on China Daily’s aspiration to be a newspaper which provides a window for China to [...]
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10+ ways to cover an election

This is a round-up of some of the apps I’ve seen news & other orgs using online to help people understand and engage with the mid-term elections in the US. It’s not an exhaustive list, just things that passed in front of my eyeballs on election day. The images are all linked. First up, Mashable [...]
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Link wrap: teens, Twitter, Facebook, sharing

Teenagers don’t buy papers, don’t use Twitter, don’t listen to radio This Morgan Stanley report, written by a 15-year-old, got a lot of coverage recently. This excerpt is from an FT story. Morgan Stanley’s European media analysts asked Matthew Robson, one of the bank’s interns from a London school, to describe his friends’ media habits. His report [...]
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Facebook grows faster, LinkedIn banks more

From Silicon Alley Insider: Facebook is growing at seven times the rate of LinkedIn but LinkedIn has been profitable for two years.
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