Tools that most journalists take for granted can pay off for their news organizations on stories big and small. Dave Schultz, assistant editor of the the Bluffton (Indiana) News-Banner, was reminded of that last Thursday when he got an email…
Tag: Social media
How to use Twitter with your blog
Poynter recently hosted an online chat with NYU professor Jay Rosen and PressThink blogger on the subject of teaching people to blog. Advice: Break news, say something that hasn’t been said, collate what no one has collated, and then link…
Tweeting the news
CNN’s Rick Sanchez has almost 90,000 followers on Twitter, making him one of the top TV news Tweeters in the US. His frequent posts are a mix of requests for feedback on the news, commentary and personal observations like this…
Twitter in the newsroom
Using Twitter as a resource can help keep a TV station on top of most local and breaking news. So says Patrick O’Brien, digital development director at WUSA-TV in Washington, DC, whom we introduced in an earlier post. O’Brien has…
Multimedia know-how
What multimedia skills do journalists need? What are managers looking for (if they’re looking at all)? Joe Grimm, who writes the “Ask the Recruiter” column for Poynter, says there’s no one “must” skill every journalist needs to learn, but every…
Twitter your resume
What can you say in 140 characters? The Media is Hirin’ Twitter feed is collecting short text resumes from journalists looking for jobs. Among my favorites so far: Will Work for Milk Duds: Nationally known film critic Larry Ratliff looking…
Twitter tips for journalists
When news finds you
Sometimes, the most amazing stories just fall into your lap. NJ Burkett, a reporter at WABC-TV in New York, says a viewer phone call this week led him to this story about a trail of personal information found in the…
Ten things every journalist should know
Only ten? John Thompson has posted a terrific list that goes beyond the obvious (learn Twitter, RSS and search techniques) to add spot-on advice and links to more information. For example: Multimedia for multimedia’s sake rarely works, and is often…
Writing for Twitter
Journalists who don’t Twitter are “crippling [their] online publishing effort,” says OJR’s Robert Niles. In his view, Twitter is the ideal medium for breaking news and delivers information to readers more efficiently than RSS feeds. But how do you write…