{"id":1044,"date":"2013-11-20T00:00:22","date_gmt":"2013-11-20T04:00:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/students.com.miami.edu\/reporting\/?p=1044"},"modified":"2013-11-20T07:07:00","modified_gmt":"2013-11-20T11:07:00","slug":"facebook-americas-favorite-social-media-site-for-getting-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/students.com.miami.edu\/reporting\/facebook-americas-favorite-social-media-site-for-getting-news\/","title":{"rendered":"Facebook: Social media site for news"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>By REBECCA FERNANDEZ<\/p>\n<p>Social media are allowing for news-related content to reach more screens faster and easier.<\/p>\n<p>For those seeking news, Pew Research found that\u00a065 percent of\u00a0Americans consume news on at least one social networking website.\u00a0Of these Americans, Facebook is the choice for news consumption. This also holds true for users who consume media on multiple social networking sites.\u00a0Right now, Facebook is the go to social network for news consumption. That means about half of the users are getting news on the site. That beats out all of the other social networks by a large margin.<\/p>\n<p>What we\u2019re seeing is a shift in news consumption. Information needs to be mobile-friendly, engaging, short and to the point. While Facebook can achieve all of that, it\u2019s struggling to keep its younger base.<\/p>\n<p>The younger audiences have fled away from Facebook because new social media like Instagram, Twitter, and Vine have emerged and offer newer, fresher ideas. Facebook has been generally the same since 2008.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By REBECCA FERNANDEZ Social media are allowing for news-related content to reach more screens faster and easier. For those seeking news, Pew Research found that\u00a065 percent of\u00a0Americans consume news on at least one social networking website.\u00a0Of these Americans, Facebook is &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/students.com.miami.edu\/reporting\/facebook-americas-favorite-social-media-site-for-getting-news\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[30,25,34],"class_list":["post-1044","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-rebecca-fernandez","tag-journalism","tag-social-media","tag-technology"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/students.com.miami.edu\/reporting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1044","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/students.com.miami.edu\/reporting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/students.com.miami.edu\/reporting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/students.com.miami.edu\/reporting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/15"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/students.com.miami.edu\/reporting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1044"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/students.com.miami.edu\/reporting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1044\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1047,"href":"https:\/\/students.com.miami.edu\/reporting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1044\/revisions\/1047"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/students.com.miami.edu\/reporting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1044"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/students.com.miami.edu\/reporting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1044"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/students.com.miami.edu\/reporting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1044"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}