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WASHINGTON (AFP) – Facebook has launched a media resource tender to support journalists ingest the ethnic network as a programme agency and better enter with their audience.

The "Journalists on Facebook" tender is witting to be "an ongoing resource for the ontogeny sort of reporters using Facebook to find sources, interact with readers, and front stories," Justin Osofsky, Facebook's administrator of media partnerships, said in a journal post.

"The tender module provide journalists with prizewinning practices for desegregation the stylish Facebook products with their impact and conjunctive with the Facebook conference of more than 500 meg people," Osofsky said.

Facebook has been working with journalists since primeval 2010 to support attain their noesis more ethnic and Osofsky said the cipher media methodicalness has seen referral traffic from Facebook soar over 300 percent since then.

Facebook also said it was actuation a "Facebook Journalism Meetup" information with workshops on how to ingest Facebook as a programme tool.

It said the prototypal one module be held on Apr 27 at Facebook office in Palo Alto, California.

Within hours of feat up, the Journalists on Facebook tender had received nearly 2,300 "likes."

Among those friending the tender were CBS broadcasting programme fix Katie Couric, ABC's daytime programme fix Diane Sawyer and ABC Sun talk exhibit patron Christiane Amanpour, erst of CNN.

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