http://www.emilyingram.com/2009/02/sports-related-inbound-links-bring-rush-of-readers/ Journalism musings from a Web producer, multimedia journalist and copy editor Wed, 10 Mar 2010 10:11:26 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 http://www.emilyingram.com/2009/02/sports-related-inbound-links-bring-rush-of-readers/comment-page-1/#comment-26 Break sports news on Facebook « Wed, 04 Feb 2009 01:10:23 +0000 http://www.emilyingram.com/?p=100#comment-26 [...] Break sports news on Facebook By jgisondi Finding, or breaking, news is only part of the equation in sports journalism any more. You also need to attract readers, building traffic through posts on other blogs, Web sites and social networks. That’s what the Daily Nebraskan did yesterday. When a sports reporter reported that a top-ranked linebacker had committed to Nebraska, editors sent the story to a Web site widely read by Cornhusker football fans. As a result, the online publication received about 10 times more hits for this news than it does for its top story of the day. A copy editor for the college newspaper offers some useful tips for promoting stories online. [...] [...] Break sports news on Facebook By jgisondi Finding, or breaking, news is only part of the equation in sports journalism any more. You also need to attract readers, building traffic through posts on other blogs, Web sites and social networks. That’s what the Daily Nebraskan did yesterday. When a sports reporter reported that a top-ranked linebacker had committed to Nebraska, editors sent the story to a Web site widely read by Cornhusker football fans. As a result, the online publication received about 10 times more hits for this news than it does for its top story of the day. A copy editor for the college newspaper offers some useful tips for promoting stories online. [...]

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