Social Media: Navigating the World of Social Media
Reuters leverages social media, including blogs, videos, social bookmarking and mobile technology to capture and deliver up-to-date information. Reuters Global Community Editor, Mark H. Jones, shared how this news powerhouse develops social media strategies, creates governing policies, solicits user-generated content and creates engaging online communities.
Speaker's Biography
Mark
Jones, Reuters Global Community Editor
Mark is responsible for the editorial content of the UK and Africa websites (
http://uk.reuters.com,
http://africa.reuters.com). He was formerly Editor of Reuters AlertNet (
www.alertnet.org), the humanitarian news portal run by Thomson Reuters Foundation, and was Global Editor of Reuters Financial Television. Prior to Reuters News, Mark worked as a reporter and producer for BBC Radio and Television, as a reporter and editor for Euromoney magazine, and as an analyst at Oxford Economic Forecasting. He blogs on social media at 'News Goes Social' —
http://markhaywardjones.typepad.com.