Thursday, April 24, 2014

Facebook Launches a Newswire to Surface More Breaking News

Man-using-ipad

Facebook wants to be your digital newspaper, and it's not beating around the bush to make that happen


The social network added FB Newswire on Thursday, a Facebook Page full of hand-selected and journalist-verified news stories from across Facebook's platform, according to Andy Mitchell, director of news and global media partnerships at Facebook.



The key to FB Newswire is a partnership with Storyful, a news agency that aggregates news content shared on social networks. Storyful has three offices on different continents, including a team of journalists in each office that work to verify news as it is shared over social media, says Aine Kerr, managing editor at Storyful Read more...


More about Facebook, Twitter, Journalism, Breaking News, and Storyful



via Social Media http://on.mash.to/1icC8Dz

No comments:

Post a Comment