Lila King
Sr. Director for Social News at CNN
Seeking "Social" Presidential Election Coverage, CNN and Facebook Partner Up
"Certainly throughout the entire election season there will be key moments, like key speeches, or key debates in the election, and there'll be opportunities to survey what people think about key speeches and moments in the campaign," said Lila King, CNN's audience participation director. ... Read more »
Letter from the editor: How to get 10 million followers on Twitter
Lila King ( @lilacina ), our senior director for social news, is a spirit guide over all of CNN's social media efforts. "B-R-K," in newsroom shorthand, isn't the only Twitter account at CNN. We have more than 100. Our second most popular account is @cnn, and it's no small fry with more ... Read more »
The rat angel and other ornament stories
" -- Lila King (@lilacina), Senior Director for Social News at CNN "My grandfather took our Popsicle sticks each summer and made the grandchildren sled ornaments each Christmas. " -- Anne Kletzker (@annek312), Chicago, Illinois "We had Tigger and Pooh as cake toppers on our wedding cake. ... Read more »
From Robert Bork to Instagram in 7 steps
Supreme Court nominee Robert Bork's video rentals affected this week's Instagram controversy. We connect the dots. After a reporter outed Bork's video-rental history, Congress made doing so illegal (CNN) -- If you read the headlines this week about the the death of Judge Robert Bork, you ... Read more »
From Robert Bork to Instagram in 7 steps
Supreme Court nominee Robert Bork's video rentals affected this week's Instagram controversy. We connect the dots. After a reporter outed Bork's video-rental history, Congress made doing so illegal (CNN) -- If you read the headlines this week about the the death of Judge Robert Bork, you ... Read more »
From Robert Bork to Instagram in 7 steps
Supreme Court nominee Robert Bork's video rentals affected this week's Instagram controversy. We connect the dots. After a reporter outed Bork's video-rental history, Congress made doing so illegal (CNN) -- If you read the headlines this week about the the death of Judge Robert Bork, you ... Read more »
From Robert Bork to Instagram in 7 steps
Supreme Court nominee Robert Bork's video rentals affected this week's Instagram controversy. We connect the dots. After a reporter outed Bork's video-rental history, Congress made doing so illegal (CNN) -- If you read the headlines this week about the the death of Judge Robert Bork, you ... Read more »
From Robert Bork to Instagram in 7 steps
Supreme Court nominee Robert Bork's video rentals affected this week's Instagram controversy. We connect the dots. After a reporter outed Bork's video-rental history, Congress made doing so illegal (CNN) -- If you read the headlines this week about the the death of Judge Robert Bork, you ... Read more »
The rat angel and other ornament stories
" -- Lila King (@lilacina), Senior Director for Social News at CNN "My grandfather took our Popsicle sticks each summer and made the grandchildren sled ornaments each Christmas. " -- Anne Kletzker (@annek312), Chicago, Illinois "We had Tigger and Pooh as cake toppers on our wedding cake. ... Read more »
More than words from the VP debate
(CNN) -- The Vice Presidential debate on Thursday night was full of facts and claims and sometimes tense exchanges about policy. But it was also full of outsized facial expressions from candidates Joe Biden and Paul Ryan, who reacted to one another's statements with a whole lot more than words. ... Read more »
Storms knock out power as they rip through Northeast
CNN's Greg Botelho, Lila King, Julie Cannold and Dominique Dodley contributed to this report... Read more »
And the iReport Awards go to ...
"iReport was at the heart and center of CNN's coverage of all of the major stories of the year," said CNN Digital Participation Director Lila King, who leads the iReport team, as well as the network's social media efforts. The recipients were chosen from 36 nominees in six categories by ... Read more »
CNN to Host the Second Annual iReport Awards – CNN Press Room
The iReport Awards is our way of saluting the best of that work, and recognizing the incredible contributions of community-created journalism on our network and news media at large," said Lila King, participation director for CNN Digital. "We look forward to a weekend of events that ... Read more »
How journalists verify user-generated content, information on social media
Reading through the different articles, I was struck by how much of the advice overlapped; the verification advice from the BBC’s User Generated Content Hub, Storyful’s Mark Little, AP’s Santiago Lyon and CNN iReport’s Lila King all hit similar points. It suggests that, even amid the ... Read more »
CNN’s head of social news: Twitter forces journos to report the news better
Leading this social and user-created content division at the network is Lila King, the senior director for social news at CNN Worldwide. King heads CNN’s social news efforts and oversees iReport. King joined CNN in 2001 — since then, she has reported and produced several ... Read more »
Social media to grow audience
Also on the panel was Lila King, participation director for CNN, who spoke about CNN's iReport, which was created in 2006 and has just passed 1 million members. Read more »
CNN iReport turns into a "Social Network for News"
The Alex Weprin, TVNewser, talked to Lila King, CNN's participation director about iReport's largest evolution as a "social network for news" yet. iReports relaunch is owed to the shift in how people already participate in the news production process today.... Read more »
P2P Foundation » Blog Archive » Book of the Day: Truth in the Age of Social Media
As CNN’s Lila King writes, technology may not always be able to “prove if a story is reliable but offers helpful clues.” The quicker we can find those clues, the better. It is true, as Craig notes, that repressive regimes “create fake videos and images and upload them to YouTube and ... Read more »
Truth in the Age of Social Media
As CNN’s Lila King writes, technology may not always be able to “prove if a story is reliable but offers helpful clues.” The quicker we can find those clues, the better. It is true, as Craig notes, that repressive regimes “create fake videos and images and upload them to YouTube and ... Read more »
CNN Debuts an All-New CNN iReport – CNN Press Room
“We want to create a social network for news, one that connects people with the stories and sources,” said Lila King, participation director for CNN Digital. “The new iReport invites people to participate in the reporting of stories that matter to them.” Highlights of the new iReport: ... Read more »
