Debate season is in full force and social TV continues to define viewers reactions to these broadcasted spectacles. In our preview of the first election we wrote about CNN allowing viewers to become live TV producers by giving viewers the opportunity to clip and share their favorite moments in real-time. SnappyTV is the social TV technology platform that has made this possible for both the first presidential debate and tonight’s veep debate. The company has just released an infographic visualizing tonight’s debate and snaps. We also learned more about how this forward-thinking partnership with CNN works. Read more

CNN and Facebook's partnership for the election continues to unveil new products. The news giant and the publicly-traded social platform have just unveiled "Election Insights", a real-time visualization that illustrates which candidates are being discussed the most on Facebook. We spoke with Mass Relevance (the social TV company powering the visualization) CEO Sam Decker...

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In July CNN and Facebook announced a major partnership around the election. "America's Choice 2012" is an analysis of Facebook's more than 160 million users in the U.S. and CNN's multi-platform audience. Their first big report is out and we spoke to Michelle Jaconi, CNN's Executive Producer of Cross-Platform programming about the results.

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A big social TV partnership was announced today. CNN is teaming up with Facebook to create a social, second screen experience for its "America's Choice 2012" political coverage. The partnership will touch CNN's "on-air, mobile and online audiences and Facebook's more than 160 million U.S. users," CNN explains. It's not surprising that Facebook and CNN have inked such a big deal. The social network's TV guy Kay Madati is a former CNN-er, although he's not mentioned in the release....

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It's definitely not easy to sustain a social platform tied specifically to a TV network, when Twitter, Facebook, Tumblr, YouTube, Instagram and others are major sources of real-time content. CNN's iReport is now over five years old and continues to grow strong as a major outlet for the global news network to curate content from their most passionate viewers. Seven months after they launched a more social iReport, they gathered their top fifty users to chat best practices and honor the best at the 2nd Annual iReport Awards.

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Still sad that the Royal Wedding was only a one time event? The marriage of the century, as some called it, captivated social buzz for days as every major news organizations focused on the big event. Now, before the London Olympics, another royal event is captivating audiences. The Diamond Jubilee, marking Queen Elizabeth's 60 year reign...

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Bluefin Labs has again provided us with some great data on last night's GOP debate on CNN. The debate accepted questions from audience members as well as questions submitted via Twitter, which were displayed on-air leading into each commercial. Bluefin Labs says the Twitter integration may have helped drive up total comments (second highest number of comments since the debate on September 7)....

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In August, CNN celebrated iReport's 5th anniversary and announced a redesign of the site was in the works. The redesign is here with the goal to create the largest "social network for news," according to Lila King, Participation Director at CNN who heads up iReport. Both individual iReporters profile pages and group pages have gotten major updates, making them easier to navigate the different pieces of content (photos, videos, etc) that a user has contributed to an "assignment."

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In August, CNN celebrated iReport's 5th anniversary and announced a redesign of the site was in the works. The redesign is here with the goal to create the largest "social network for news," according to Lila King, Participation Director at CNN who heads up iReport. Both individual iReporters profile pages and group pages have gotten major updates, making them easier to navigate the different pieces of content (photos, videos, etc) that a user has contributed to an "assignment."

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In August, CNN celebrated iReport's 5th anniversary and announced a redesign of the site was in the works. The redesign is here with the goal to create the largest "social network for news," according to Lila King, Participation Director at CNN who heads up iReport. Both individual iReporters profile pages and group pages have gotten major updates, making them easier to navigate the different pieces of content (photos, videos, etc) that a user has contributed to an "assignment."

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