Social media growing as a gateway to news (By Laura Slattery, Irish Times) WhatsApp is emerging as “a key network for news” in some countries, while Twitter is influential but not as popular as journalists sometimes assume, a new report by the Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism suggests. The Digital News Report 2014, published today, finds that after shaking up “the comfortable old world of news” the audience for social media is itself fragmenting, with different players dominating in different countries. Facebook retains its position as by far the biggest social media platform for news, with more than a third of the 18,859 people surveyed by YouGov across 10 countries saying they accessed news via the network. But though it has established a powerful position across all the markets studied, the “battle for attention” among other social media brands has thrown up a variety of winners. Read more here: bit.ly/1q6ssPt
Posted on: Fri, 13 Jun 2014 11:30:00 +0000
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