Independent media was the target of the Mubarak Regime today in Egypt and all day I have been tweeting, retweeting and cross-posting items to Facebook until a private beta invite from Storify landed in my mail box and made the task a lot easiers. The result
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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
I am leading a delegation of foreign journalists to visit press and media houses in Washington and Philadelphia.
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.
Continue reading ‘Use Twitter to find your next journalism job’
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.
Continue reading ‘Newspapers, ‘Journalism,’ Wikipedia and Controversy, oh my.’


