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Journalists can use Twitter in many different ways. They can reveal personal details or maintain a purely professional profile. They can interact with their followers [...]

When I hear about bots, or software designed to act like humans on social networks, the first thing that pops into my mind is automated [...]

Although change is inevitable, some innovations are easier for newsrooms to adopt than others. How change fares has much to do with how the innovation [...]

Pursuing a story in a foreign area can be complicated and dangerous. Enter “fixers,” local people who for years have been helping journalists and other [...]

Evidence-based recommendations for journalists In this summary of her research, Emily Thorson of George Washington University offers recommendations to journalists who write about public policy issues. [...]

What causes some stories to catch fire on social media while others fall flat? Is it determined by indefinable qualities, or are there some elements [...]

The National Geographic Channel in June released an ambitious project that took eight months to complete: a (very bloody) hands-on, boots-on examination of what it [...]

The Coral Project aims to change how publishers, contributors and readers think about interacting in online communities — and it wants to do so with anyone [...]

Upworthy defines itself as a curation site for “compelling, meaningful” content — and that content is typically shared widely, often going viral. When Upworthy was [...]

On Facebook, personal storytelling and interaction abound. For journalists, however, these practices seem to breach traditional norms that they should avoid entering the fray. But [...]