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(Originally posted May 7, 2010)

RTDNA reports a big one-year change in the use of social media by television news departments: 76 percent of responding stations say they integrate social media on their websites and 68 percent incorporate it into their storytelling. Last year, 36 percent said they were doing NOTHING with social media (although, granted, that means 64 percent were doing something); now fewer than 9 percent say that, while 36 percent say their newsrooms are “constantly” active on Twitter.

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(Originally posted April 21, 2010)

Among the experiments in Media General newsrooms for using social media to promote upcoming content, Sara Diamond of WJHL has started using a webcam to make 1 1/2-minute promos for Facebook saying what stories the station is working on. Many TV stations — and some newspapers — do these kinds of promos for their websites. Posting them to your Facebook fan page as well just makes sure they are in more places and are more likely to be seen by more people.

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