Social media has spread news from small local stories to widely-known national news. It has made finding news more straightforward and more accessible. Being able to pick up your phone and open up Instagram to see headline news is a vast improvement from having to buy the newspaper every day. Not only is it easier to find the news, but the news that is shown through social media is also interactable and attracts younger people's attention. The bright colors and images used by new's companies and their social media teams are just a few of the ways they pull viewers in. Buchanon Public Relations stated, "Long gone are the days when rustling through a newspaper with ink-stained fingers was the only way to get the news". To read more on the pros and cons of social media news, click here.
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