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    The Facebook News Experience

    On Facebook, the largest social media platform, news is a common but incidental experience, according to an initiative of Pew Research Center in collaboration with the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation.

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    Audience Routes: Direct, Search & Facebook

    This study focused primarily on the three main paths internet users take to get to the 26 most popular news websites: Direct visitors who either type a URL into the browser or use a bookmark; those who come through a query on a search engine; and those who get news by following links they see […]

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    Personal Wealth, Capital Investments and Philanthropy

    As advertising has shrunk in recent years and audience revenue has not fully closed the gap, another patchwork of investments has grown considerably–suggesting, perhaps, new models for funding the journalism of the future. Wealthy individuals have purchased or created new journalism outlets with personal funds. Companies initially built as technology firms have used their earnings […]

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    Location-Based Services

    More social media users are adding location information to their posts, and most smartphone owners use location-based information services.

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    Location Tagging on the Rise for Mobile, Social Media Users

    30% of social media users now tag their posts with their location, while 74% of smartphone owners get directions or other information based on their current location and 12% use a geosocial service to “check in” to locations or share their whereabouts with friends.

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    Photo and Video Sharing Grow Online

    54% of internet users have posted original photos or videos to websites and 47% share photos or videos they found elsewhere online. 18% of cell owners use Instagram and 9% use Snapchat.

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    Planned Twitter IPO follows years of user growth

    Twitter’s announcement on Sept. 12 that it planned to go public with an initial public offering follows seven years of growth in the user of the social media platform.