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Audio

Audio 1:  Engaging readers while keeping out the nasty

Description: Daniel Ha, executive officer and co-founder of the Disqus commenting platform, talks to It's All Journalism host Michael O'Connell about how websites can engage their readers in conversations on their comment boards. He discusses strategies for keeping out trolls and developing a rich social experience with your audience.

Web

Web 1: In so many ways, users of social media improve our journalism

Description: For all its messiness and disappointment, social media has and continues to improve what it is we do as journalists. A Denver Post columnist shares a few examples.

Web 2:  What is social journalism?

Description: How social journalists use social media distinguishes them from other journalists. They share information with the public, they find stories from the public, and they have formed a connection with their readers. Be sure to scroll through five sections of this outline by Tow-Knight Center for Entrepreneurial Journalism.

Web 3: Five top tips and tools for the social media reporter

Description: Social media has become such an important part of the fabric of our culture and society. And that means it is really important for journalists to be social media literate… beyond just the basics of knowing how to tweet or post to Facebook! Journalists need to know how to sift through, analyze, understand and interpret what is going on. Here are five tips.