Younger Journalists More Likely to Use Social Media

Tamara L. Gillis, Elizabethtown College
Kirsten Johnson, Elizabethtown College

Abstract

A national survey of journalists’ social media use found that younger journalists used social media tools in newsgathering more often than did their older colleagues. Social media use ranked lower as a newsgathering tool, compared to face-to-face interviews, phone calls and email correspondence.