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Northwestern University and Evanston's Only Daily News Source Since 1881

The Daily Northwestern

Northwestern University and Evanston's Only Daily News Source Since 1881

The Daily Northwestern

Hejaze: Twitter supplements journalism but isnt journalism itself

Hejaze: Twitter supplements journalism but isn’t journalism itself

November 23, 2014

Andy Carvin (Communication '93, '94), a former NPR digital media strategist, relentlessly tweeted on the Arab Spring, starting in February 2011. He once sent out 1,400 tweets for 20 hours straight on...

Ao: Social media is becoming less social

Ao: Social media is becoming less social

November 17, 2014

I remember when I signed up for a new Twitter account at the beginning of my freshman year. My journalism professor made it part of our assignments to tweet links to our stories, just to get us freshmen...

Burg: Twitter is an effective source of news

November 2, 2014

Last week, The Daily reported the cancellation of a program that provides free daily newspapers in campus dining halls. The Collegiate Readership Program, run by USA Today, provided us with copies of...

Matney: How viral content infected the media

Matney: How viral content infected the media

October 20, 2014

The state of our media is struggling. Journalistic content seems to be losing its bite as a variety of trends promising to be the solution to its woes have influenced journalism to become something it...

Matney: Self-obsessions and self-esteem in the age of social media

Matney: Self-obsessions and self-esteem in the age of social media

October 6, 2014

When the word “tweeting” hit the national lexicon in 2009, cynics were already complaining about how social media was ushering in the complete and utter breakdown of human interaction. Fast forward...

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