Social News

This book is the first to define and describe ‘social news’, a new kind of journalism emerging in response to social media. Drawing on the author’s extensive research into news and social media platforms,  Social News  critically examines the rise of well-known outlets such as  BuzzFeed  and  Mic  in the US, and  Junkee  and  Pedestrian  in Australia. Hurcombe argues that these outlets became successful by strategically engaging with social media