What is the relationship between traditional media and social media?

When you log on to facebook or twitter, you will often come across news stories shared and often commented on by your friends and acquaintances. One could say that the people you "know" online become your personal news editors. In other words, we use social media to find news, or the news find us via our friends. At the same time, as explained by Markham Nolan in this TED talk,  traditional media use social media to find and investigate news stories. Furthermore, in episode five of the HBO series The Newsroom, we saw how social media can be used by news producers to get in touch with the real people who are on the ground where important events are taking place - more or less anywhere in the world.

Write a short text where you sum up the main points of Nolan's talk and comment on the relationship between traditional and social media. Also, search online to see if you can find a good comment article about this and share the link to this comment in your blog post.

World news

This week we spent some time browsing world news. First, you were simply asked to check out the websites of news giants BBC, CNN, Fox News and Al Jazeera. After forming a first impression of these, you were to pick one piece of news that was covered by all of them and compare the coverage on the four websites. Now, write a post about what you found. What was the headlines, what images/ illustrations were chosen, was there differences in the language? Try to also comment on how detailed/ thorough the coverage was.  How nuanced would you say the various websites were in their presentation? What type of and/ or how many sources were used? Finally, give your  subjective opinion on which of these presentations of the news story you liked best and explain why. The picture is a clipping of the BBC front page today.