Mediagazer: Facebook news-feed changes mean newsrooms need new engagement strategies (Steve Buttry/The Buttry Diary)

5:00 PM ET, October 12, 2012

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Steve Buttry / The Buttry Diary:

Facebook news-feed changes mean newsrooms need new engagement strategies — Changes to the algorithm guiding the Facebook news feed make it more important than ever that newsrooms and journalists engage effectively on Facebook. — We don't fully know how the changes work or what we should do about the them.

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