Journalists and social media

Interesting statistics from the United States, regarding the attitude of journalists to social media.



A study published in the Buuldog Reporter:



75% of journalists read one blog or more (70% last year) and 29% read more than 5 blogs to keep up with time (25% last year);

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More than 75% of journalists are searching for material in social media (last year, there were 67% of them);



More than half (56%) use news feeds and micro-blogs;



At least once a week, 38% of journalists visit social media sites (last year - 28%);



More than half of the respondents (53%) place Facebook, Youtube and social bookmarking sites at least once a month (last year - 44%);



About 19% get five or more RSS feeds of news portals, blogs, podcasts or video posts every week (last year - 16%), 44% of journalists subscribed to at least one RSS feed;



Most journalists (76.4%) read local newspapers to keep track of information, 63% view the New York Times, 51% visit Google News and 32% read news on Yahoo! News to keep abreast of events;



34% of journalists use wiki instead of painstakingly collecting information from different sources.



What can I add, friends. Love social media and everyone will love you.



Based on Socialmediatoday .



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