Ibero-American Online News Managers’ Goals and Handicaps in Managing Social Media

Abstract

This article presents the results of a study of social media uses and standards from the perspectives of online newspaper managers in Argentina, Colombia, Peru, Mexico, Venezuela, Spain, and Portugal. 1 Interviews with online news managers and a content analysis of journalists' use of Facebook and Twitter accounts show that cultural, economic, and organizational factors handicap news outlets' adoption of social media. At the same time, evidence shows that these professionals' drive and enthusiasm for transitioning to online and using social media have made meaningful changes in the ways news is produced in the Ibero-American region.

Comments, analytics, and social media: The impact of audience feedback on journalists’ market orientation

“…Initially, journalists used social media merely to promote their stories, treating social media platforms as mere extensions of their websites (Lariscy et al, 2009). But journalists have also used social media as a news source (Paulussen and Harder, 2014), as a platform for commentary (Canter, 2013), as well as a way to interact with news audiences (Said-Hung et al, 2014). The embedding of tweets into news stories online has become a convention (Broersma and Graham, 2012).…”

Jornalistas Locais e Fact-Checking: Um Estudo Exploratório em Portugal e Espanha

“…Using content published on social media by users or sharing it on the media outlet's own profiles or pages is something that has already been studied in local media (Amaral et al, 2020;García-de-Torres et al, 2011;Said-Hung et al, 2014). In the current study, focusing on the Portuguese sample, viewpoints are split.…”

Redes sociales en Iberoamérica. Artículo de revisión

“…El segundo tema que la bibliografía sobre redes sociales en Iberoamérica ha examinado considerablemente es la relación con el periodismo y los medios tradicionales. Los textos existentes han investigado, en primer lugar, cómo las organizaciones mediáticas (García-De-Torres et al, 2011; Gómez-Domínguez; Besalú-Casademont; Guerrero-Solé, 2016; Said- Hung et al, 2013) y los periodistas (Jerónimo; Duarte, 2010; González-Molina; Ramos-del-Cano, 2013; Mourão, 2016) hacen uso de las redes como fuentes informativas (Cobos, 2010), como herramientas de comunicación con sus públicos (Said-Hung et al, 2014), y como forma de producir medios alternativos (Harlow, 2017).…”

“…El segundo tema que la bibliografía sobre redes sociales en Iberoamérica ha examinado considerablemente es la relación con el periodismo y los medios tradicionales. Los textos existentes han investigado, en primer lugar, cómo las organizaciones mediáticas ( (Cobos, 2010), como herramientas de comunicación con sus públicos (Said-Hung et al, 2014), y como forma de producir medios alternativos (Harlow, 2017).…”