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Nic Newman

is lead author, Reuters Institute Digital News Report

Blog posts in total 4

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  1. Finding the news: Mobile and social revolution gathers pace

    Across all platforms, fewer people are accessing the front page of a news website - more people are going directly to stories via search or social media.

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  2. How to make sense of social media information avalanche: SocialSensor

    A new app is designed to help journalists filter social media messages. It’s still being tested, and is inviting feedback.

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  3. How the news finds you...

    We can all think of occasions when we found out important news from a friend. It happened to me with the death of Princess Diana in 1997, on a lazy Sunday morning with a phone call from a relative - something of an embarrassment given I worked for a breaking news website at the time. These da...

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  4. Social is the new search

    As Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg suggests, this is the year when social stops being an experiment and starts becoming core to everything we do online. For consumers, this means we'll be bringing our friends with us into our websites and mobile applications, to our browsers and desktops (as...

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