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The Digital Transition: How the Presidential Transition Works in the Social Media Age | whitehouse.gov

President Obama is the first “social media president”: the first to have @POTUS on Twitter, the first to go live on Facebook from the Oval Office, the first to answer questions from citizens on YouTube, the first to use a filter on Snapchat. Over the past eight years, the President, Vice President, First Lady, and the White House have used social media and technology to engage with people around the country and the world on the most important issues of our time (while having some fun along the way)…

So after all this – nearly eight years of digital firsts, more than 470,000 We the Peoplepetitions, nearly 30,000 @WhiteHouse tweets, and thousands of hours of video footage – what happens when the next administration takes office? 

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How the kinds of headline, the policy issues behind it, and the news source mentioned can affect readers. 

Read more: Investigating the Influence of “Clickbait” News Headlines – Engaging News Project

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“The term clickbait gets thrown around a lot. There is a certain type of journalism that involves writing an exaggerated headline that convinces you to click and it doesn’t deliver on the promise. We should never do that. That’s fooling the readers. That will undermine your brand in the long term…People still want original journalism. There’s no value in us just mimicking everybody else telling the same Taylor Swift story that’s already been written 20 times.”

-Alan Murray, Time Inc.’s chief content officer

Read more: Time Inc.’s chief content officer ready to take down silos

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“Fact-checking in news coverage is the best way to intercept a falsehood at the scene of the crime. And it is exactly the kind of reporting that makes daily journalism more valuable. It still gives politicians a chance to have their say, while giving readers and viewers the context they need to evaluate those statements.”

Read more: It’s time to fact-check all the news – Poynter

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How editorial cartoonists are extending their work beyond commentary and satire, distributing them on new platforms and trying to make it as freelancers. 

Read more: “But it’s…cartoons?”: Comics and cartoons are coming to life well beyond the printed page » Nieman Journalism Lab

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BuzzFeed Regroups as Media Turns Video-Centric

Reported.ly is taking a break and figuring out what’s next. Andy Carvin, founder and editor-in-chief, shares the tools and tricks the site has picked up while reporting over the past two years. 

Read more: A rundown of some of reported.ly’s favorite tools - reported.ly

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“Engagement happens when members of the public are responsive to newsrooms, and newsrooms are in turn responsive to members of the public.” Jennifer Brandel, co-founder and CEO of Hearken, offers some tips on best practices when it comes to audience engagement.

ONA is excited to partner with Hearken for ONA’s annual conference, ONA16. Thanks to Hearken, this year, you can ask session speakers questions ahead of time to help shape the conversation. If you’re curious about an emerging trend, want to know more about a topic or are hoping that speakers will dig into something during their session, now’s your chance to post a question. We’ve embedded question forms on the session pages. To see them, just click on a session from the schedule and you can post your question directly on the ONA16 site.

Read more: What We Mean When We Talk About “Engagement” – We Are Hearken – Medium

(Source: medium.com)