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Social Networks and the Media

* How can social networks be used by journalists and reporters?

Journalists and reporters can efficiency share events include photo and video information with audience. Also they can communicate with colleagues and followers. There are a lot of social networks which journalists and reporters use: facebook, twitter, tumblr, livejournal, blogspot, vkontakte and etc. So many people of mass media sphere have a blog. It’s a dairy in the internet. They write about interesting in their life, job, and world. As well as they have accounts in other social services. Using depends on aims. If they want to tell something in details they prefer blogs, but if they need to be short, they prefer twitter. To post text in twitter is faster and short news is easy to read. Social networks are the best way to be involved in social live and get it with.

* What aspects should a journalist keep in mind when using social networks as a work

tool? (Ethics in Social Networks)

When a journalist uses social networks as a work tool, he should keep some aspects in mind:

-Take audience interests into consideration- it is very important point of journalism, because journalists work for audience. This is one of three main points of journalism. They should give to people what they need and what they want to know about.

-Journalist posts should be a reliable source. Everybody wants to know the truth. Thought the instrumentality of published information people could compose the picture of what is going on.

-Journalists should prepare “fresh” news. The news is recent the better for audience. Journalists approach to be the first hand of giving information.

-Journalists have to remember about sense of humor when it is necessary. Spin control is significant. Text should be colorful and not boring.

- Journalism has educate. People should find something new for themselves by journalistic materials. Audience needs to make discoveries every day.