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5 Ways Journalists Can Use Pinterest - 10,000 Words

some of these ideas feel forced (teasers), but others are spot on (showcasing features and staff, and user participation, of course).

We’d love to try Pinterest for some of these ideas. We’re bothered, though, that they haven’t validated its journalistic use by putting in categories for news and politics, meaning that if we were to use it for this reason, it’d be hard for people to find it because it doesn’t fit neatly in any of the other main categories. But Pinterest is clearly where things are going: We’ve run into numerous people who have never used Tumblr or Twitter who are singing the praises of Pinterest. Clearly they’ve hit an untapped market here.