Social media, the role of Facebook and Twitter as the new direction of journalism

Abstract

In our work we consider our attention to several crucial topics as fea-ture of working in the multimedia editing of the publication, «Business Resource» multimedia newsroom; the role of Twitter, Facebook, and other social media as a new direction in journalism. The main aim of this mate-rial is to introduce the audience with the main tools of mixed journalism by practical examples and to explain more about the opportunities that social media present.