Inspired by the ‘We Are The 99 Percent’ Tumblr, Emily Nipps, a reporter from the St. Petersburg Times has created ‘We Are Journalists’, a collaborative Tumblr where journalists that are “tired of bad press about the press” can tell their stories.
Launch a social media campaign that will build your brand and deliver results in our online Social Media Marketing Boot Camp starting June 7. Speakers include Abigail Cusick (Bravo Digital), Gregory Galant (Sawhorse Media), Alex Leo (Thomson Reuters Digital), Jim Tobin (Ignite Social Media), and many more. Read the reviews. 
Agence France-Presse became the latest media organization to clarify its guidelines for the use of social media, releasing its revised policy Wednesday.
Once you create a Storify account, you can drag social media elements into a timeline. You form a script of your story as you add your own context around selected items. When you’re done, you can embed it wherever you like.
Based on the concept that reporters can’t be everywhere when something of newsworthy is happening, Storify steps up and takes the best of the user-generated or citizen-generated content and combines it with journalistic oversight.
Journalists appear to be reaching an equilibrium of sorts between print and digital media – an “equilibrium of sorts” because it appears the scales are tipped heavily in favor of going digital. According to a recent report by Oriella PR Network, journalists see their offline publications as risky endeavors in the current economy, with over half of those surveyed predicting the demise of their print, publication or TV media sometime in the future.
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