Journalists’ ability to use Facebook to write better sourced stories is improving, with new enhanced search capabilities. Katie Harbath, Facebook’s Associate Manager for Policy and a 2003 UW-Madison grad, reported that Facebook has a new search feature, as she spoke to SPJ’s Facebook for Journalists meeting on Tuesday, January 15, 2013. Katie Harbath “It just launched today,” she said, describing the new service, Graph Search. “As a journalist, this could be really exciting.”

Source: Uploaded by user via Gordon on Pinterest The Madison Pro chapter of SPJ devoted a day to Social Media for Journalists, with workshops held on May 11, 2012, at the Capital Newspapers auditorium. Event hashtag: #spjmadisontraining. Follow SPJ Madison Pro chapter on social media: @spjMadison and http://www.facebook.com/MadisonSPJ. Photos from the day have been posted on Pinterest. SESSION AUDIO: Session #1 – Why Social Media, featuring Katy Culver (@kbculver), UW-Madison