Month: February 2023

Find out more about how influencer marketing has changed due to social media. Read here for more info on influencers. Open up the social media account you use the most. Whether that be Twitter, Instagram, Tik Tok, or anything else it probably will not take long to see a popular person – an influencer –…

On February 13, my classmate Stephanie Cuomo and I set out to complete a social media scavenger hunt. In this scavenger hunt we created tweets with questions about various Seton Hall topics in order to look at how we as student journalists can use twitter to receive and spread information.  The Results: A brief reflection…

Social Media has been a useful tool for journalists, but that does not mean journalists do not need to be careful on social media. Twitter can be a great place for journalists to crowdsource, connect with their audience, and share their personality. However, twitter also means having to deal with internet trolls, accidentally oversharing, and…

From seeing a news outlet’s Instagram story with a poll, to a journalist on twitter asking for the public’s insight on a breaking story, or even the weatherman on the local news asking for pictures of how the weather looks in your neighborhood, journalism crowdsourcing is all around us.  Journalists create their own data with social media…

In 1994 college student Justin Hall created one of the first blogs. His blog links.net is still up and running today. This blog gave the start for many more blogs to come. According to the Intergrowth’s piece “How to 10x Your Personal Brand Through Blogging” research from January 2022 shows there are “over 570 million blogs on the internet”.  From…