Tuesday, September 27, 2011

What do Facebook Changes Mean for Journalists?

Here is an interesting article on how the recent changes in Facebook will affect journalists (mostly positive). This is justhttp://www.blogger.com/img/blank.gif the first several paragraphs--to read the entire article,

Facebook has released several updates in the last month that will affect how journalists use the platform for reporting and storytelling. Many of these new features will make it easier for journalists to distribute their content and keep up with sources of information.

Some of the relevant changes for journalists include Subscribe, which enables readers to subscribe to journalists’ public updates, and a redesigned News Feed — complete with a newly introduced Ticker for real-time updates that makes it easier to keep up with the news that’s most important to you. The new lists also make it easier for you to target updates to a specific group of people, and to see a customized stream of news from them.

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