Title: Social Media Has Forever Changed The Way We Consume News
Headings: Social Media Has Forever Changed The Way We Consume News
Social Media Has Forever Changed The Way We Consume News
#1: Social media is the new gatekeeper
#2: Social media has replaced “serious news” with the trending, the viral and the buzzworthy
#3: The news cycle is now 24/7
So what’s the future of journalism?

Content: Moreover, with the rise of sites like Buzzfeed (which now has more visitors than the New York Times ), the emphasis is on the viral and buzzworthy. If people aren’t going to press the “like” button on a story, what’s the point of publishing it? #3: The news cycle is now 24/7
At one point, all you had to do to be reasonably literate was to pick up one of those weekly news magazines that summarized all the top events of the past 7 days. News, when it happened, was relatively slow. It could happen on a Monday, and you were still OK if you only “caught up” on a Friday. But not anymore. If you’re not posting, tweeting or sharing at the moment that a story happens, you’ve probably missed it forever. News organizations have realized that, and are now positioning every tiny bit of news as “breaking news” (CNN is the worst), and are encouraging people to consume it the same way they consume social media posts about what you had for lunch that day. So what’s the future of journalism?