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Mainstream Media Mistakes on Twitter

Mainstream Media Mistakes on Twitter

FIRST, WHY ARE THERE NO NEWS PRODUCERS ON TWITTER? Twellow is the best application to find Twitterers grouped by occupation. I perused through the News category – noted a lot of freelancing journalists and some reporters, but no news producers or editors. Twitter makes it easy for a community to tip the news media News [...]

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The Future is LATimes.com, not LA Times the Paper

Last week, LA Times editor Russ Stanton was quoted telling a forum at USC’s Annenberg School of Communications: “I think big-city newspapers, the way we have known them, are not long for this world, as they’re now configured.” Over the weekend, John Jarvis on Huffington Post glommed onto another quote by Stanton: “(The)Times’ Web site [...]

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Diaspora of Journalists

Diaspora of Journalists

On Community Funded Reporting site Spot.US, David Cohn reports from Freelance Camp – “an unconference for freelance professionals of all sorts – artists, coders, writers, designers etc.” The most pertinent session for me was aptly titled “How the Changing Nature of Information Affects Information Providers.” It was proposed by a local magazine writer who recently [...]

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LA Times Continues to Integrate Twitter as Broadcast Media

LA Times Continues to Integrate Twitter as Broadcast Media

LA Times reports the Obama campaign has confirmed an announcement for VP and plans to distribute his choice by email and text message. Of course, they encourage the public to join their network for updates by submitting their contact information, which will get them on Obama’s drip email marketing list, complete with donation appeals. The [...]

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