Five ways traditional journalists use Facebook

Here are five ways in which Facebook has bolstered the solidarity of those still working for 'the old order':

Emotional support

In the movies and in real life too, many newsrooms once came custom-fitted with a dingy whiskey-soaked bar across the road where journalists in scruffy old leather jackets would drown their sorrows. In more recent times, with newsrooms cut to the bone and time always in short supply for over-worked staffers, there isn't time for such luxuries.

Nowadays, journalists often get that emotional support on Facebook. A colleague of mine covered the harrowing story of a fatal crash between a train and a taxi full of school children, and within hours of posting how traumatised she was on Facebook, many other journalists had come forward to offer her much-needed words of comfort.

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