Report: How journalists use social media in 2017

Reporters see social media as essential to their work; they’re just
cautious about trusting it.
In a recent survey of U.S. journalists and other media professionals, 42
percent report using five or more types of social media regularly. Still,
more than half are concerned about fake news and social media’s influence
on journalism.
The report identified six categories of social media users: architects,
promoters, hunters, messengers, observers and skeptics. Each group had its
own pref