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Around the Web: A journalist's primer on Facebook
Shared by Tommy Thomason on June 24, 2010
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The very best way, of course, to get an overview of social media and to see how you can use Facebook and Twitter and the like is to come to one of TCCJ's workshops (And you're in luck, because another is scheduled for the University of Texas at Tyler on July 21). But here's a nice summary of how individual journalists and newspapers are using Facebook. It also includes a look at some of the ethical issues we have to deal with when we begin to use social media at our newspapers.
About the author
Tommy Thomason
Director at Texas Center for Community Journalism
Tommy Thomason is the founding director of the Texas Center for Community Journalism. Thomason began his career in journalism in the early 1970s with the Associated Press, working as a sportswriter in Arkadelphia and Little Rock, Ark. He has also worked in public relations in Dallas and as a...