Facebook authorities recognise bdnews24.com chief editor’s page

Facebook Inc has recognised the page of bdnews24.com Editor-in-Chief Toufique Imrose Khalidi on the social networking site.

The formal recognition came on Tuesday.
 
A white tick mark within a blue circle can now be seen next to his name on the Facebook page, which is followed by 39,000 users.
 
The ‘verified’ sign appears every time the cursor is placed on the tick mark.
 
According to Facebook, pages and profiles managed by proper authorities are shown ‘verified tick marks’ to indicate they are genuine.
 
Khalidi said he had first seen the verified page while attending the World News Media Congress in Washington.
 
He tweeted: "I noticed it when I was in a session of World News Media Congress here in Washington where Publisher Arthur O. Sulzberger Jr. and Assistant Editor Alex MacCallum were discussing The New York Times Innovation Report.”
 
“The two talked about how the NYT newsroom has transformed and how social media tools such as Facebook have been the driving force.”
 
They revealed that the one-and-a-half-century-old tradition of Page One meeting had recently been made a thing of the past by their new Executive Editor, a major issue in print newsrooms across the world, he said.
 
Khalidi said: “They have stopped holding the Page One meeting everyday... with section editors seeking to sell their story to get one of the eight slots on The New York Times front page.”
 
For the last two days of the three-day global gathering of top editors and publishers, everyone had been talking about how social media such as Facebook changed news consumption habits, he said.
   “In one presentation, the Secretary General of WAN-IFRA said Google gobbles up 31 percent of Internet revenue, followed by Facebook with eight percent.”
 
One speaker warned that social media outlets would increasingly take over news dissemination, making things difficult for the traditional news providers, he added.