{"id":93498,"date":"2016-10-31T14:02:06","date_gmt":"2016-10-31T14:02:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.vuelio.com\/uk\/?p=93498"},"modified":"2016-12-22T17:22:36","modified_gmt":"2016-12-22T17:22:36","slug":"facebook-launch-e-learning-course-for-journalists","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vuelio.com\/uk\/blog\/facebook-launch-e-learning-course-for-journalists\/","title":{"rendered":"Facebook launch e-learning course for journalists"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-size: 18px;\"><strong>In news that is sure to make The Guardian\u2019s editor-in-chief, Katherine Viner\u2019s blood boil, Facebook has recently launched a new <u><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/facebookmedia\/journalists\" target=\"_blank\">e-learning course<\/a><\/u>\u00a0designed to help journalists make better use of the Facebook platform.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>The resources currently available online cover items like clickbait headlines and why you should not use them, building an audience via social media and how to discover news content via Facebook (because that\u2019s where most journalists find their news now \u2013 sad isn\u2019t it?).<\/p>\n<p>At present, current available course materials shouldn\u2019t take more than 15 minutes to complete.<\/p>\n<p>Aine Kerr, manager of journalism partnerships at Facebook, <u><a href=\"https:\/\/www.journalism.co.uk\/news\/facebook-launches-free-online-training-for-journalists\/s2\/a686060\/\" target=\"_blank\">told journalists<\/a><\/u>: \u201cNext to Facebook guidelines and instructions, we&#8217;re also taking great examples from the industry itself.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOur hope is that this will be very informative for newsrooms but equally it will be very much a collaborative, inspiring experience for journalists to learn from how other journalists have been doing it in their newsrooms according to their particular beats and specialisms.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In the coming week\u2019s Facebook will be extending the range of editorial content available via the e-Learning platform as well as launching a series of webinars.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s first webinar which will be held on November 3, 2016 will focus on how journalists can best use Facebook\u2019s new video broadcast tool Facebook Live.<\/p>\n<p>According to the website Journalism.co.uk, Facebook\u2019s journalism training services were developed following conversations between the Facebook News Partnership team and several media organisations and the team will continue to update the training based on feedback to reflect new product launches or skills needed.<\/p>\n<p>As social media platforms like Facebook continue to disrupt the way we as PR professionals distribute our content, social media savvy PRs should probably look to invest 15 minutes or so in Facebook\u2019s new educational resource.<\/p>\n<p>Journalists might have a whole host of new social media tools to engage their audiences \u2013 but they do not have the monopoly over the use of these technologies.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In news that is sure to make The Guardian\u2019s editor-in-chief, Katherine Viner\u2019s blood boil, Facebook has recently launched a new e-learning course designed to help journalists make better use of the Facebook platform.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":423,"featured_media":93499,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[350,3729],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vuelio.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93498"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vuelio.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vuelio.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vuelio.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/423"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vuelio.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=93498"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.vuelio.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93498\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":98133,"href":"https:\/\/www.vuelio.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93498\/revisions\/98133"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vuelio.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/93499"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vuelio.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=93498"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vuelio.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=93498"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vuelio.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=93498"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}