New Gatekeeper To New Media

Abstract

This study explores the role of the gatekeepers in disseminating the local and national
news through social media, studying the role of editors and users in creating news in the
community through the use of Facebook and Twitter, the main feature of this new genre is
the interaction with editors using social media to identify and distribute stories Through daily
monitoring and readers using these networks to read an article, commenting on the news of
the day, this study will provide an insight into what users prefer social networking sites, and
times when newspapers prefer to deliver their message and will describe how Editors and
the use of social media to develop the news stories, and distributed widely and it will provide
insight about the reason for readers to publish their news.