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Twitter for Journalists: World Editors Forum Webinar

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Robb Montgomery
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Not sure how best to use Twitter for your newsroom or for yourself? You may want to register for this new Twitter Webinar I have just designed for the Paris-based World Editors Forum.

I, naturally, just tweeted the details but for those who follow this blog instead of @robbmontgomery the details, cost and links are included here.

Twitter for journalists: World Editors Forum Webinar

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Twitter for Journalists: World Editors Forum Webinar
Paris, France
June 30 — 30, 2009

Study Tour - Washington, D.C.

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Robb Montgomery
on June 4, 2009
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I am leading a delegation of foreign journalists to visit press and media houses in Washington and Philadelphia.

Use Twitter to find your next journalism job

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Robb Montgomery
on February 20, 2009
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Find your next media job on Twitter - follow @media_pros to see hot jobs when they post.

Find your next media job on Twitter - follow @media_pros to see hot jobs when they post.

This media jobs project is called Media Professionals and is something I have been tinkering with off and on for a couple of years. Now is the time to take this jobs feed to Twitter and Plaxo where more journalism job seekers are going these days.

Media Pros is an RSS feed, a Group on Plaxo and a Twittter feed

Media Pros is an RSS feed, a Group on Plaxo and a Twittter feed

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Newspapers, ‘Journalism,’ Wikipedia and Controversy, oh my.

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Robb Montgomery
on December 4, 2007
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Truth is, I don’t really have time to blog today but I am squeezing this in because there are a number of web debates now circling around my co.mments feed.

Among the topics: Citizen Journalism (or do we mean ‘Networked Journalism’ or ‘Participatory Journalism’ now?), Wikipedia’s secret mailing lists, Web stupid newspaper editors, and even more layoffs of professional journalists.

Questions from students of journalism
I am online to reply to questions posed to me from a Medill student journalist that I taught last week. Alex wants to know why Wikipedia ranks so high in search engines and why people use it even though it is prone to be easily manipulated by those who want it to serve their own interests.

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