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Official BBC Weather and Arabia Twitter accounts are hacked by pro-Assad supporters

@gordonmacmillan — Thu, 21 Mar 2013 14:58:30 +0000

Looks like the official BBC Weather account on Twitter and @BBCArabicOnline have been hacked. It appears to be another attack by pro-Bashar al-Assad supporters who have hit another Western media Twitter account.

How social media is taking over the news industry [infogrpahic]

Polly Becker — Fri, 20 Apr 2012 12:36:15 +0000

More than 50% of us have now learned about a major breaking news story via social media. The death of Osama bin Laden being a case in point. That day Twitter hit a new record for tweets as it had its CNN moment.

Other big stories to have broken socially was the start of the Arab Spring in Egypt, the Hudson River plane crash and Whitney Huston’s death.

But as this infographic points out there are pitfalls as well as pluses here. How often have you read inaccurate reports? Another case in point being that of Colonel Gaddafi. At one point he was both a live and dead as rumours flew around the social web.

Reuters names the top 50 social CEOs

@gordonmacmillan — Fri, 03 Feb 2012 12:06:26 +0000

Reuters has named its Top 50 Social CEOs as part of the launch of a new social media section for journalists and readers called the “Social Pulse”.

Topping the list it will be no surprise to anyone to see Mashable’s Pete Cashmore. He is followed by Oprah Winfrey and new Twitter boy on the block Rupert Murdoch. Less than a month in and the combustible News Corporation CEO is number three. That’s social climbing.

Reuters to launch YouTube for bankers

Dan Leahul — Mon, 10 May 2010 14:00:18 +0000

Thomson Reuters is to launch Reuters Insider, a YouTube for the financial industry, which will aggregate hours of video footage from a variety of sources, including banks, fund managers, analysts, news outlets and the company’s own journalists.

Bloomberg redesign aimed killing WSJ and FT

Dan Leahul — Tue, 20 Apr 2010 10:20:17 +0000

Bloomberg.com is doing away with its traditional text-heavy, straight-news website, with a redesign that embraces multimedia and aesthetics, revealing its intentions to take-on its rivals in the Wall Street Journal and the Financial Times.