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10 Twitter users that every journalism student should follow?

UPDATE: From the comments: similar lists now available for Norway and Sweden. I will soon begin teaching my annual module in Online Journalism and one of the first things I get the students to do is set up a Twitter account. It’s often a struggle to demonstrate the usefulness of Twitter, so this time around, in addition to following each
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3 wishes for social media in 2009

This was published as a guest post on Shane Richmond’s Daily Telegraph Technology blog: Media organisations are still barely getting their heads around social media. They look at a conversation and see ‘vox pops’; they look at a community and see a market. They ask for ‘Your pictures’ and then complain when they get 1000 images of a mild snowfall.
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Lessons in community from community editors: #1 Shane Richmond

I’ve been speaking to news organisations’ community editors on the lessons they’ve learned from their time in the job. In the first of a sure to be irregular series, the Telegraph’s Shane Richmond: 1. The strongest community is one that belongs to its members

A vlog post from 2020

I was asked by The Telegraph’s Shane Richmond to write a blog post ‘from the year 2020′. “OK,” I thought, “so what would a blog post look like in 13 years’ time?” Well, it would almost certainly be mobile, so I filmed it on my phone. Apple will probably be scraping the barrel of products they can ‘re-engineer’ by then,
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Are there really only six essential books on online journalism? {UPDATED}: Now 9

I was looking to draw up a list of ten essential books on online journalism – but it seems to me that there are really only six (updated to 8, September 2010). Have I missed something? Let me know. In the meantime, here are my six 8 essential reads for online journalists: For a different angle on the whole shebang: Gatewatching
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The NUJ fuss – now I’m spitting

I’ve held back from commenting on the NUJ’s initial remarks on multimedia working but a call for reaction to Donnacha DeLong’s accompanying piece on the NUJ New Media mailing list – and some of the comments in response – have finally got me typing in frustration. In particular, one person’s remark that “The biggest problem is that on the web everyone thinks
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