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More Journalists Use Social Media to Research Stories
Posted on: Thu, 20 Nov 2008 14:34:00 +0000
 Public relations practitioners who want insights regarding journalists' use of online newsrooms, blogs, RSS and social media now have research to guide their media relations practices. The second annual study conducted by Bulldog Reporter and TEKgroup International, Inc., indicates that journalists' usage of these technologies continues to be more extensive than believed by PR professionals. The 2008 Journalist Survey on Media Relations Practices Executive Summary is available on http://www.tekgroup.com/.
For the second year in a row, the findings will be released at the PRSA International Conference. Those findings again reveal that the greatest change in journalism practices due to new Internet technology is the ability to access corporate news and contact information online 24 hours a day. Nearly half of all journalists report visiting a corporate website or online newsroom at least once a week, while almost 87% visit at least once a month.
Blogs, social media and RSS
While approximately 25% of journalists do not cover blogs, more than 29% report regularly reading five or more blogs to research desired topics, compared with only about 26% a year ago. Nearly 75% follow at least one blog regularly, compared with only about 70% a year ago.
There is an increase in journalists visiting social media sites. Today, more than three-fourths of journalists use social media to research stories, compared with about 67% last year. Almost 38% of journalists now say they visit a social media site at least once a week as part of their reporting, compared with only 28% last year. More than 53% of journalists now say they visit a social media site like FaceBook or YouTube at least once a month, up from about 44% last year.
Nearly 19% of journalists receive five or more RSS feeds of news services, blogs, podcasts or videocasts every week, compared with only 16% a year ago, and about 44% receive at least one regular RSS feed.
Audio or video material
While more than half of journalists never seek audio or video material from corporate websites, nearly 23% say they seek such material at least once a month - an increase of three percentage points over the past year.
Primary source of news
A large majority (76.4%) of journalists report that they use local newspapers to follow news, while nearly 63% check the New York Times, 51% run through Google News and about 32% employ Yahoo! News to stay abreast.
The survey results, conducted September 11-23, 2008, reflect practices of 2,386 respondents, of which approximately 48% were editors or editorial staff and 34% were reporters or writers. The survey?s objective was to establish benchmarks for how journalists use the Internet to conduct research, and then to track year-over-year changes.
Source: Bulldog Reporter - http://www.bulldogreporter.com/
TEKgroup International, Inc. - http://www.tekgroup.com/
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