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Future of local news report is a grim read

Stephen Waddington

Social media has replaced local news in communities across the UK. It is weakening community engagement and participation in local democracy. The collapse of local news is a crisis that has played out in plain sight over the past two decades. Local news has faced an assault on two fronts.

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Future of local news report is a grim read

Wadds Inc.

Social media has replaced local news in communities across the UK. It is weakening community engagement and participation in local democracy. The collapse of local news is a crisis that has played out in plain sight over the past two decades. Local news has faced an assault on two fronts.

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How Social Media Is Paving a New Path for Journalism

Cision

More than half of journalists surveyed in Cision’s recent Social Journalism Study believe that they would not be able to carry out their work without turning to their social media accounts for help. Check out which social media platforms journalists are turning to, how they’re using them and why: 1.

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Case Study: Bauer

NewsWhip

CASE STUDY. How Bauer Media uses NewsWhip to unify content strategy across all of their brands. Bauer ran a five day test to see what would happen if their regional radio stations put new forms of content at the heart of what they did on social media. social referrals. social referrals. Company Size.

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Four social media channels most communicators overlook

Communications Conversations

These are the “Big Four” of the social media marketing world. And, they encompass about 90% of all social media marketing for most companies. In fact, according to a recent UMass-Dartmouth study , 91% of Fortune 500 level companies use Twitter, 89% use Facebook, 63% use Instagram and 98% use LinkedIn.

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7 brands experimenting with new social media marketing approaches during COVID-19

Communications Conversations

It’s something Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella is famous for–sharing employee-only memos on Microsoft’s social media channels. Nice to see a local company doing that here in Minnesota. But, the decision to feature employee-generated content on the Walmart Facebook page was a big one. Very transparent.

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Newborn Abducted from Hospital and Social Media Saves the Day

Melissa Agnes

An amber alert was issued at 7pm and the picture of the abductor, taken from the hospital’s security footage, was plastered all of local media and social media. This, ladies and gentlemen, is a great example of the power of social media in emergency and crisis situations. Photo credit: cbc.ca.