Social Media
Journalists on Election Day
In the four years since the last presidential election, digital journalism has sprouted in different directions, allowing reporters to not only distribute their work in more ways but to create personal brands within their identity as journalists. Election Day 2012 demonstrated this growth.
- Gooood morning #journalists, and happy #Election2012! Today is like a one-day case study of evolution in breaking-news coverage. Exciting!
- In an effort to document the different ways journalists and media organizations covered the election, SPJ kept tabs on Twitter, Facebook, Instagram and RSS feeds. Content came in many forms, and it's an interesting collection: Resources for journalists and voters, updates (humorous and informative) from the field, traditional election coverage, and fun finds on the Internet. (Everything is organized into one of four sections with the most recent entries at the top of their categories -- resources and tips, status updates, election coverage and just for fun). Enjoy.
Resources and tips
- Cool one-stop #CA map: how the 11 state ballot props are doing in each of 58 counties (mouse over county for results) vote.sos.ca.gov/returns/maps/b…
- Journalists share election night newsroom shots via social web: bit.ly/Uw4QPy /via @Poynter #cnnelection
- Cut through the clutter and just follow this. Has made my life easier tonight. @quartznews qz.com/24653/us-presi…
live w our geo-located #election2012 mobile web map. washingtonpost.com on your smartphone & get your state returns http://pic.twitter.com/mcrKeuHX- [reposting for tonight] How the Election Will Be Called, by WSJ's @CarlBialik, bit.ly/TJ3fJx #Election2012
- Nice look at some of the interactive tools being used by news orgs during #Election2012 coverage: bit.ly/SVLIeZ /via @jeffsonderman
Is It Illegal To Instagram Your Vote?This may sound familiar: a friend of yours posts a picture of her completed ballot, shot moments ago, inside a New York City voting booth...- What kinds of tweets about #electionday2012 have politicians deleted? @SunFoundation has you covered. http://politwoops.sunlightfoundation.com/?state=&party=&office=
- The election day interactives the @propubnerds are following today. propublica.org/nerds/item/ele…
- 6 most creative election front pages journ.us/Xh8K51 @Tennessean @dmregister @PlainDealer @redeyechicago @coloneltribune @lasvegassun
- Wondering when to tune in for swing state results? Here's when polls will be closing across the U.S. n.pr/SxRRx4
- "I always tell our employees that the coverup of a social media error is worse than the error itself" journ.us/PU9ECN Don't be Nixon
- Fun: Choose the "Swing States" tab on @USATODAY's Twitter Election Meter: twitterelectionmeter.usatoday.com Score there right now is Obama 73, Romney 55.
- The @mentionmachine tracks the total number of mentions each candidate is getting - washingtonpost.com/mention-machine via @washingtonpost
















