Article On Correlation Between Social Media and Sports Journalism

I am someone who is an aspiring sports journalist and use social media to give out information, find information and to promote my work and the work of others. I read an article on the correlation between social media and sports journalism.

This article has some description and then uses charts and graphics to explain how social media and sports journalism have a correlation. The article says that 54% of all journalists use Twitter. Personally, I use it all of the time. I am surprised however, that the percentage is not higher. I think this is because some are still set in their ways and are "old-school." That being said, with newspapers unfortunately dying, journalists need a social media presence to stay relevant.

The article gives stats for ESPN, the Worldwide Leader in Sports, uses Twitter, Facebook and Youtube and are very successful at these. Due to the fact that people are "cutting the cord," ESPN needs to still have a presence to those who don't watch ESPN on TV and to the younger audience who is always on social media on their smartphones.

This article really helps to show my SM4SC campaign because it gives statistics to the use of social media for sports journalism and just doesn't give opinion or general information.