Twitter / Home. Search. Journalisten op Twitter: waarom en hoe : Heleen van Lier. Most journalists use social media such as Twitter and Facebook as a source | Media. A US survey has revealed that an overwhelming majority of reporters and editors use social media sources for researching their stories as 56% say social media is important for reporting and producing the stories they wrote. However, with 84% most journalists use information delivered via social media rather cautious as they think it is less reliable than information delivered via traditional media. According to the research conducted by Cision and The George Washington University, for their online research all journalists are using Google, followed by 61% which are turning to Wikipedia. Among social media 89% of journalists make use of blogs while conducting their online research, while 96% turn to corporate websites.
Social networking sites like Facebook or LinkedIn by comparision are only slowly keeping up as two-thirds of the journalists turn to them during their online research, while only about half of them make use of the micro-blogging site Twitter. 'Mensen willen geen privacy' - Media & technologie.