Chapter 3 Blog Post

Chapter 3:Social Media in Journalism

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(The New York Times website and enacted a paywall to 

encourage readers to subscribe or have their access to  media limited.)

     This chapter speaks about the relationship between journalists and citizens.With the option of a “back-and-forth exchange” or private direct message (DM) journalist’s need to decide how much engagement with their audience serves their personal goal and the company's brand. Journalism has begun adapting to meet new reader behavior. They now use things such as Search Engine Optimization (SEO) is a concern for journalists.Using keywords for headlines and tags creates a faster way to get news out and newspapers now enact paywalls. The use of paywalls are one point that resonated with me the most out of this chapter. Those who wish to have access to well written and unbiased information should have to pay and in turn it keeps journalists and their publishers alive.