{"id":2946,"date":"2013-06-25T08:45:57","date_gmt":"2013-06-25T12:45:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gabrielsnyder.com\/notes\/?p=2946"},"modified":"2013-06-25T08:45:57","modified_gmt":"2013-06-25T12:45:57","slug":"trust-twitter-for-news-yeah-right","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/gabrielsnyder.com\/notes\/2013\/06\/25\/trust-twitter-for-news-yeah-right\/","title":{"rendered":"Trust Twitter For News? Yeah Right."},"content":{"rendered":"
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A new report on the consumption of Digital News from the Reuter’s Institute of Journalism<\/a>, just announced at the Gen News Summit<\/a> in Paris, reveals that while more of us than ever get our news via social media, we don’t trust social networks themselves as a source of news.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n

The first news of the death of Soprano’s actor James Gandolfini may have reached you via Twitter, but you probably went to the New York Times<\/em> or, dare we say, Fast Company<\/a> to read about it. The Reuters Institute for Journalism’s latest report on Digital news<\/a> reveals that while most people now discover news via social media, they don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t trust social media itself as a news source and want their news verified by traditional news brands like broadcasters and newspapers.<\/p>\n

Many of the results from the Reuters Institute for Journalism’s latest report on Digital news<\/a>–the doubling of the consumption of news on tablets in the last 10 months or the fact that 33 percent of readers track news on two devices–seem rather obvious. A more surprising finding was that the death of the traditional news brand has been greatly exaggerated. Reuters surveyed 11,000 people of all ages in 8 countries, including over 2,000 in the U.S.<\/p>\n

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via Fast Company http:\/\/www.fastcolabs.com\/3008881\/tracking\/trust-twitter-for-news-yeah-right<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A new report on the consumption of Digital News from the Reuter’s Institute of Journalism, just announced at the Gen News Summit in Paris, reveals that while more of us than ever get our news via social media, we don’t trust social networks themselves as a source of news. The first news of the death … <\/p>\n

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