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Entries for the ‘Journalism’ Category

13 reflections on journalism in 2009

With so many SEO-aware blogging journalists out there — and some other linkbaiting-aware bloggers — you’re sure to run into many “top 10″ lists for the year in journalism. I’m trying to compile them here. Please add your own links in the comments below. Here is a start: Videojournalism 2009 The top 5 most popular posts of the [...]

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Executive tweets during search for murder suspect

Shortly after four police officers were killed in Washington, David Boardman (@dlboardman), the executive editor of The Seattle Times started using Twitter. His account was created 27 days prior to the shooting, and he had tweeted once. After the police slayings, Broadman posted two messages telling people to visit the site. Then, he started really using Twitter. [...]

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Sources of top journalism linkers revealed

NYU professor Jay Rosen has a Twitter list of the “top 15-20 people most likely to give good link about journalism and its struggles.” The Twitter Times creates a “real-time personalized newspaper” based on links shared by people you follow on Twitter, and the people your followers follow. Links are ranked by recency and popularity. Here [...]

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Twitter lists are useless a week after news breaks

Shortly after a shooter took the lives of 13 American soldiers at Fort Hood last week, some news organizations used Twitter Lists to help report information as it surfaced. It caught the attention of both journalists and social media observers. Let’s see if those lists still provide useful updates or at least some basic information about the news [...]

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