Jun 14 Biz Stone: Twitter Is Bringing Humanity Together in New Ways In extended interviews with the NewsHour's Spencer Michels, Twitter co-founder Biz Stone discusses the social media service's global impact on humanity and breaking news, and the "young" company's business model and why he says they're not for sale. Continue reading
May 09 The Drudge Report Drives More Top News Traffic than Twitter or Facebook, Study Finds The Drudge Report outranks social media when it comes to driving news traffic to top Web sites, according to a new study from the Pew Research Center's Project for Excellence in Journalism. In a comprehensive examination of online traffic… Continue reading
Apr 20 Watch Egypt's Uprising: Tracking How Social Media Stirred Action Social media is analyzed from the Egypt uprising in January and Feb 2011. Continue watching
Apr 12 Social Media Curation Tool Storyful Helps Separate News From Noise EmbedVideo(325, 482, 304); An average of 155 million tweets are posted on the social networking site Twitter each day, the social media giant tweeted last week. In just one minute, an average of 35 hours of… Continue reading
Apr 11 Watch Social Media Curation Tool Separates News From Noise Startup Storyful explores how to separate the news from the noise in social media. Continue watching
Mar 21 On Twitter's 5th Birthday, a Look Back at Memorable NewsHour Tweets With Monday marking the fifth anniversary of the first tweets, we're taking a look back at how the NewsHour team has experimented with and used Twitter to share news and analysis, plus create new ways to keep the… Continue reading
Feb 25 Getting Around Gadhafi: Rethinking Revolution Coverage From Libya One of our segments on Friday's PBS NewsHour was not like the other ones, in that it came together in a slightly different manner than what has been standard operating procedure here. While we can count on our… Continue reading
Feb 25 The Economics of a World Run Riot By Elizabeth Shell Is there an economic explanation for the world running riot, especially in North Africa? Maybe, says investment advisor Ed Yardeni, an otherwise pretty consistently conservative economist. He cites distinguished Brandeis University, historian David Hackett Fischer and Fischer's 1996 book, "The… Continue reading
Feb 22 Frontline, GlobalPost Offer a Closer Look at Egypt's Muslim Brotherhood By Larisa Epatko PBS' Frontline airs a report Tuesday night called "Revolution in Cairo" on Egypt's youth movement, which mobilized under the radar of the secret police by using social media, including Twitter and Facebook. Continue reading
Feb 15 Clinton: Internet Barriers Have 'Moral, Political and Economic' Costs By Larisa Epatko Secretary of State Hillary Clinton took to task governments, including those in China, Myanmar and Iran, for curbing Internet freedoms of their citizens, while defending the Obama administration's stance on the leaked WikiLeaks documents in a speech Tuesday. Continue reading