Newspapers ease into social media

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More than eight years after Twitter began, the editor of the New York Times has not yet filed his first tweet, AJR intern Mary Clare Fischer writes in an update on print journalism's slow adoption: "Newspapers across the country are paying more attention to how to motivate staff members to post articles to social media as a means to drive site traffic, especially amid print circulation declines and the dwindling relevance of the front page (and even the homepage)."

June 10, 2014

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