The popularity of social networking sites like MySpace and user-generated content sites like YouTube are inducing traditional news organizations to rethink their approach to the Web. Outfits like Fox News, CNN, USA Today and MSNBC have begun to incorporate social networking tools into their sites, as well as actively soliciting content from their users. “For some news sites, there’s a great deal of interest in providing social networking tools to their audiences,” Howard Finberg, director for interactive learning at the Poynter Institute, told TechNewsWorld.
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Social Networking and the Citizen Journalist
Posted by: John P. Mello Jr. March 23, 2007 04:00 AMThe popularity of social networking sites like MySpace and user-generated content sites like YouTube are inducing traditional news organizations to rethink their approach to the Web. Outfits like Fox News, CNN, USA Today and MSNBC have begun to incorporate social networking tools into their sites, as well as actively soliciting content from their users. “For some news sites, there’s a great deal of interest in providing social networking tools to their audiences,” Howard Finberg, director for interactive learning at the Poynter Institute, told TechNewsWorld.