If the future will be a distributed one, Fusion wants to make sure it’s prepared.
The digital news site and cable network for millennials on Monday announced a new team to create stories and videos meant to be read and watched exclusively on social platforms. The social newsroom of 12 people includes eight who are focused on Snapchat alone. Others work on Instagram and Vine. Fusion hired Laura Feinstein, a former editor in chief of Vice’s Intel-backed Creator’s Project, to lead the group.
From Nieman Reports: How to tell powerful narratives on Instagram » Nieman Journalism Lab
Consider it this way: Instagram has essentially become one of the world’s most successful general interest magazines. More than 300 million people use it each month. An average of 70 million images are uploaded to it daily. And each one represents a page, a story, a sliver of light or perception bouncing in from somewhere around the world. You’ve seen Instagram’s users: often young, highly engaged, head-down on subways, buses, and sidewalks, thumbing through streams of images that pour into their phones. That absorption is not for nothing, and that global audience is built around a simple premise: that every post contains a story.
(Source: niemanlab.org)
Essena O’Neill is just another example of one of the most dangerous trends of the New Economy. She was making a living giving away content that was “free” to users, creating the illusion of a “sharing economy” where money was of no concern. Her customers didn’t know they were customers. She had no paywall. She was ad-supported.
110 photojournalists run National Geographic’s Instagram account | Poynter.
Very cool approach to managing an Instagram account for a media brand.
(Source: poynter.org)
Facebook is something we all got in middle school because it was cool but now is seen as an awkward family dinner party we can’t really leave.
Bob Burns (known as Blogger Bob), runs the TSA’s Instagram account, which shares photos of some of the wildest things people try to sneak through the security line.
He tells Wired that the feed has helped change the conversation that people are having with the TSA:
You change it from people complaining about TSA to people saying, ‘Wow look what TSA found, I can’t believe someone would try to come through with this.We like to show not only that our workforce is capable of finding these things, but we’d like to educate people.
The TSA’s Instagram Feed Is Terrifying and Totally Awesome | Raw File | WIRED
NEW REPORT: Some 73% of online adults now use a social networking site of some kind. 42% of online adults now use MULTIPLE social networking sites; which do you think is the platform of choice? http://pewrsr.ch/1dP98fS
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