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Tegna’s NBC affil WBIR holds a towering lead over its local competitors on social media in Knoxville, Tenn. according to Shareablee data. Being a go-to platform during the market’s devastating wildfires was one factor that put it there.

The president rarely surfs the web on his own, but his staff have made a habit of slipping news stories on to his desk — including the occasional internet hoax.

Twitter lost the deal to stream the NFL’s Thursday Night Football games this year to Amazon, but today the company is announcing a new multi-year agreement that will bring live football programming to its service. According to the NFL, Twitter will stream official NFL video and other content to fans year-round, including a new 30-minute live digital show that will air on Twitter five nights per week, during football season.

Snap Inc. reported a massive loss and a continued slowdown in user growth, while revenue fell below Wall Street’s expectations in its first quarterly earnings as a public company. Wednesday’s results come just a week after Facebook reported solid first-quarter results, with double-digit revenue growth — as it has consistently since its initial public offering in 2012.

Tegna’s NBC affiliate WTLV tops the Jacksonville, Fla., market in total social actions over the last six months, according to Shareablee, while Graham Media’s indie WJXT leads in fans/followers. WTLV’s news director says making social a constant part of the daily news discussion — and listening to the audience on Facebook — has helped move the station into the top slot.

LONDON (AP) — Facebook says it has deleted tens of thousands of accounts in Britain ahead of the June 8 general election in a drive to battle fake news. The […]

Modern marketers face the struggle of ever-fragmenting ways of getting in front of consumers. Television needs to accept that reality. Its advertisers need to use it in concert with other platforms, particularly social, and that will inevitably siphon off some of its advertising revenue. But TV still has the power to play that orchestrating role if it’s not too belligerent or myopic to pick up the baton.

President Trump on Thursday blasted the media, saying members of the press will do anything to “get attention.” “The Fake News media is officially out of control,” the president tweeted. “They will do or say anything in order to get attention — never been a time like this!”

The Wall Street Journal is reporting that Snap Inc.’s ambitious effort to create television-like content has old and new media companies alike clamoring to learn how to produce shows for Snapchat’s lucrative young audience. Over the past several months, Snap has signed original show deals with NBCU, Turner, A+E Networks, Discovery, BBC, ABC, ESPN, Vice Media, Vertical Networks, the NFL and MGM. It is also in discussions with CBS and Fox. Todayy, Snap plans to unveil another show deal with Food Network-owner Scripps Networks Interactive. WSJ subscribers can read the full story here.

The hires over the next year will be on top of the 4,500 people Facebook already has to identify crime and other questionable content for removal. Videos and posts that glorify violence are against Facebook’s rules, but Facebook has been criticized for being slow in responding to such content, including live videos of a murder in Cleveland and a killing of a baby in Thailand.

Alan Pergament: “My new favorite TV channel is … Twitter. Through links sent by followers, it allows me to see things that I forget to DVR and to go to bed early to see things that haven’t aired yet.”

Google’s pain may be Rupert Murdoch’s gain. Murdoch’s News Corp. is introducing a new service to ensure online ads don’t appear next to fake news or offensive videos, marking the latest salvo in the billionaire media mogul’s long battle with the world’s biggest search engine. News Corp.’s Storyful unit, which filters through the firehose of social media for publishers and brands, will track websites known as purveyors of fake news or extremist content and share that list with advertisers, who can use it to keep ads from appearing in controversial places.

It’s the first women’s sport to be live-streamed on Twitter. The inaugural game will be the Dallas Wings against the Phoenix Mercury on May 14. The agreement also includes the WNBA joining Twitter’s Amplify program, which will include 40 highlight packages per week being featured across Twitter.

Scripps’ Cincinnati ABC affiliate leads a tight social media race among its local competitors according to Shareablee data. Its edge comes from lots of native video, its website’s editor-in-chief says, including experiments in live music and weather-inspired stunts.

Technology companies and banks helped drive stocks higher Monday. Tech companies have set the pace all year and are up more than twice as much as the rest of the market. Apple and Facebook, which will report their first-quarter results in the next few days, helped lead the way.

Twitter has found its first partner for its push into round-the-clock streaming television: Bloomberg. The social-media company is joining forces with the global financial news outlet to create a service that will stream news produced solely for Twitter 24 hours a day, seven days a week.

The company has promoted Alex Hardiman, formerly of the New York Times, to its new head of news products role. The job means Hardiman will work with publishers to create news features, and also try to stop the proliferation of false news on the service.

NEW YORK (AP) — Facebook is acknowledging that governments or other malicious non-state actors are using its social network to sway political sentiment, including elections. That’s a long way from […]

In the future, traditional broadcasters and social platforms that are emerging as key video destinations could team up on bidding for sports rights. That was the vision that emerged at the NAB Show during a panel discussion featuring Craig Barry, chief content officer at Turner Sports; Chris Granger, president of the Sacramento Kings; Todd Goldstein, chief revenue officer at AEG; and Keith Wachtel, chief revenue officer for the NHL.

The social media giant announced today a training and support pilot program for local legacy and online newsrooms. Through a partnership with the Knight Foundation, Facebook will work with newsrooms that are part of Local Independent Online News Publishers, the Institute for Nonprofit News, the Detroit Journalism Cooperative and newsrooms that are part of last year’s and this year’s Knight-Lenfest Newsroom Initiative.

Broadcasters and advertisers should take note of the more than 90 warning letters that the FTC sent out this week as a reminder of the need to disclose material sponsorship connections in social media promotions and endorsements.

With millions of Facebook fans and the freedom to speak his mind, the 85-year-old journalist is back in the arena — facing the opponent he’s been waiting for his entire life.

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Twitter Inc. is reporting a loss of $61.6 million in its first quarter. The San Francisco company said it had a loss of 9 cents per […]

People no longer need to watch newscasts for stories about crime, traffic accidents and fires — the things that not long ago were a TV station’s bread and butter. Users are getting it first hand in real time. Some police departments have more folks dedicated to digital than do TV stations in the market. It’s clear: local TV news needs to move beyond the police blotter or fire department calls of the day. Station and news managers need to come up with a deep, viewer-focused content strategy.

Mark Zuckerberg now acknowledges the dangerous side of the social revolution he helped to start. But is the most powerful tool for connection in human history capable of adapting to the world it created?

BIA/Kelsey and Share Rocket have published a white paper, Local TV Station Roadmap for Monetizing Social Media examining the social media opportunities for broadcasters and providing four basic strategies for […]

Nexstar’s CBS affiliate leads the Mobile, Ala.-Pensacola, Fla. DMA in total social actions over the last six months according to Shareablee data, while Sinclair ABC affil WEAR bypasses the station with slightly more fans/followers. An aggressive adoption of Facebook Live over the past few months has given WKRG the edge, its news director says.

Social News Desk. today launched its free Social Rankings app for broadcasters. Powered by the company’s database of news organizations on Facebook, the Social Rankings app is a daily social […]

Facebook is looking to hire someone to head up its news products, a significant new role charged with helping to combat the proliferation of so-called fake news on its service. Facebook is talking to veterans of both the tech and media industries, according to multiple sources, but is having trouble finding someone with both the news and technology chops necessary to fill the role.

Steve Safran: If your station is using its Instagram feed just for behind-the-scenes goofing around, you’re missing an opportunity because TV photogs and reporters have a great eye for telling stories through pictures. But we are demeaning the importance of pictures when we use a picture-driven social media like Instagram for strictly non-news purposes. And we’re missing a valuable opportunity — to show we’re serious about the news.

Tegna’s Tampa, Fla., CBS affiliate debuted a new look Tuesday morning, complete with new on-air personalities, a redesigned set and even a new 10News logo. The new 10News Brightside is part of what the station’s managers are calling a top-to-bottom revamp of its newscasts.

Beginning next month, its vCE suite will include measurement of both display and video ads that run on desktop and mobile platforms on Facebook, Instagram and the Facebook Audience Network.

Its new Monetize platform is designed to create an additional revenue source for broadcasters and publishers, while offering new premium inventory for advertisers.

The social network is facing criticism for a posting of a killing of a 74-year-old man on Easter, but it is not the first struggle the company has had over its role in policing content on its global platform.

Raycom’s NBC affiliate leads its local peers in an active social media market according to Shareablee data. A constantly reassessed approach to Facebook and a steady daily use of Facebook Live is putting it there.

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