Facebook Live Column Added to Signal

The social network introduced Signal in September 2015 as a tool enabling journalists to discover and curate content from Facebook and Instagram, giving them access to features including Trending content, data on topics driving the most conversation on the social network and the ability to save content discovered via Signal to content-management systems or to embed it in websites and broadcasts.

Manager of journalism partnerships Áine Kerr introduced the Facebook Live column in a Facebook Media blog post, noting that it would replace the FBNewswire/Politicswire column that had been populated by Storyful:

Today, we are announcing a small update to Signal based on feedback from journalists using it every day.