Editors should use social media

Tuesday, September 09, 2014

Grahamstown, South Africa-This year’s Africa Highway Media conference facilitators has urged media bosses and journalists alike to rub shoulders through social media as a new way of fundamentally redefining the meaning of communication, access to and sharing of information, ideas and thoughts.

Dan Gillmor from Arizona State University’s Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communications said in his keynote address about the potential of the internet to positively transform society and how they consume information.

He encouraged journalists to forge new ways to practice their profession online adding that media literacy and the know-how of the web went hand in hand.

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Editors should use social media

Grahamstown, South Africa-This year’s Africa Highway Media conference facilitators has urged media bosses and journalists alike to rub shoulders through social media as a new way of fundamentally redefining the meaning of communication, access to and sharing of information, ideas and thoughts.