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So how can you keep up-to-date with all the latest and breaking social media news without sacrificing too much of your time? In this post, we’ll share some tools, tips, and tricks to help you stay up to date with social media news in just 10 minutes a day.
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In just 10 minutes a day, you can stay on top of all the important social media news. Here are the five different ways you can choose from. 
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“In a world where we had control of such things,” Tom Jolly, the associate masthead editor at The New York Times, told me in an email, “we’d break the big stories early in the day, when more people are online.”
This dynamic is, in a strange way, a throwback. As Matt Pearce, a national correspondent for The Los Angeles Times pointed out in a string of tweets Wednesday night, “it's like we’ve bizarrely returned to the era of the evening edition.”
The news alert that The New York Times distributed to readers’ cellphones Wednesday night. About one hour after Times readers received a news alert Wednesday night, The Washington Post notified readers of its latest scoop.
In the late 19th and 20th centuries, the evening edition was the newspaper you grabbed for your commute home from work. Because it was published in the afternoon, it was the best way to get the most up-to-date news in print. After all, by the time the work day ended, that day’s morning paper covered events that had taken place at least a full day before....
Jeff Domansky's insight:
Even in the internet age, the rhythms of print publications drive the news cycle. Fascinating look at why, though maybe it's because we're home from work and multi-screening on TV, laptop and smartphone to keep up, visit, shop all at once?
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In a time of Trump, how should journalists serve the public? Should they join the protests? Become a partisan, opposition press? Or stick to neutrally reporting the facts? In this three-part series, media ethicist Stephen J. A. Ward, author of “Radical Media Ethics,” rejects these options. A proper response requires a radical rethink of journalism ethics. He urges journalists to practice democratically engaged journalism, which views journalists as social advocates of a special kind. They follow a method of objective engagement which Ward calls pragmatic objectivity. Journalists of this ilk are neither partisans nor neutral reporters of fact. In the first article in the series, Ward defines democratically engaged journalism. In this, the second article, he explains and applies pragmatic objectivity. In the final article, Ward will show how democratically engaged journalism opposes Trump’s tribalism of Us versus Them..”...
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Stephen Ward looks at journalism challenges in the "fake news" era.
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In just 10 minutes a day, you can stay on top of all the important social media news. Here are the five different ways you can choose from.