Tag Archives: Social Media

Reporters using Facebook: good idea but don’t take anything at face value

By Julie Starr | Published: January 12, 2008
Shane Richmond, Communities Editor at the Telegraph, brings a few notes of common sense and caution to his advice on how reporters can use Facebook.
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The urge to document and share is a powerful one

By Julie Starr | Published: January 9, 2008
I enjoyed this post from BBC journalist Robin Hamman about documenting his life and uploading it to Flickr. Reminded me a little of Everything is Illuminated, a moving story centred on a young man who is a habitual collector and travels to Eastern Europe after his grandfather's death to find the woman who'd helped his grandfather escape the war.
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Reporters on Facebook – the professional and the personal

By Julie Starr | Published: January 2, 2008
Steve Outing offers some advice for reporters - use Facebook and consider having two profiles, one for personal and one for professional.
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Finding stories on Facebook

By Julie Starr | Published: December 17, 2007
From another Beat Blogging post comes Venture Beat reporter Eric Eldon's explanation of how he uses Facebook to find stories. Kicks in around halfway down.
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Newspapers make themselves at home on Facebook

By Julie Starr | Published: December 5, 2007
It doesn't seem that long ago that newspapers' involvement with social networks like Facebook and Bebo was restricted to tutting over how much time some of their employees spent sending messages and updating their status during work hours.
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