How has newspapers, magazines and journalism benefited since the implementation of social media?

Before the creation of social media, writers and journalist had to navigate out into the world in order to discover their stories and find their news to deliver to the world. They needed to have the skills enough to track down eye witnessing accounts and sources, the skills of profound research in order to have the accurate information. And as time passes by, these possessive skills are still needed the work in-between doing the task has become easier and that is because of social media. Such as with the trending page available on the different social media platforms such as twitter, it allows for writers to scroll through the page and find their next story; as well as it alarms them of any breaking news, social movement, etc. 

Because social media has created a time pressure to be the first to deliver breaking news or anything to the public, it gives the newspaper to be the first to hear from it. It gives life-time updates, plus you are able to get a wider perspective of what everyone thinks about a topic. As a matter in fact, it gives into perspective to the newspaper and magazine what topics and situations the audience care about and are most likely to pay attention to, driving traffic to their website and story. 

Other benefits:

1.     Answer questions from readers

2.     Cultivate personal brands of star journalists.

3.     Monitor government operations and behavior of politicians.

4.     Respond to criticism of coverage and more.