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1. August 7, 2012 03:53 PM

   ‘Open’ in the age of live tweeting

   How UNITY 2012's student newsroom taught NAHJ a lesson about social media

   By Sara Morrison

   A routine board meeting became the biggest story of last week's UNITY convention after the National Association of Hispanic Journalists President Michele Salcedo refused to allow a student journalist to live tweet during NAHJ's open board meeting. UNITY, a quadrennial meeting of minority journalist organizations, features workshops, training sessions, banquets, career expos, and exhibitions. It also has a student newsroom,...

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2. March 5, 2012 01:04 PM

   @#?

   How to quote e-mail, tweets, and such

   By Merrill Perlman

   BREAKING: Palm Beach Sheriffs Office tells @SusanCandiotti that the bomb squad is investigating a suspicious pkg near #Rush #Limbaugh home How would you quote that tweet, sent last week? As it was tweeted? Or would you write “The Palm Beach Sheriff’s Office tells Susan Candiotti that the bomb squad is investigating a suspicious package near Rush Limbaugh’s home”? Or something...

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3. July 31, 2012 12:00 PM

   @GuyAdams is #suspended (Updated)

   Did Twitter's Olympics partnership with NBC lead to a journalist's account suspension?

   By Sara Morrison

   Guy Adams is still "trying to get to the bottom of" why his Twitter account was suspended on Monday. The Independent's Los Angeles-based correspondent told CJR in an email that he doesn't know exactly what happened. But the suspicion in the journo-Twitterverse is that it might have something to do with Adams's multiple criticisms of NBC's Olympic coverage on the...

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4. December 1, 2010 10:02 AM

   A Lecture for the New Media Set

   Kauffmann on John Koblin's Tweet and "journalistic integrity"

   By Joel Meares

   I’m going to guess that Paterson communications director Peter Kauffmann is more your leisurely Sunday Times reader than your short-is-best Twitter fiend. He showed his stripes in early February when he issued a curt knuckle-slapping to then New York Observer media reporter John Koblin. Koblin, you might recall, was one of the first reporters—along with then New York Daily News...

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5. August 9, 2012 08:44 PM

   A tale of two Finkes

   Deadline Hollywood doyenne Nikki Finke is not amused by the fake Twitter account in her name

   By Sara Morrison

   The real Nikki Finke (@NikkiFinke) is the founder and editor in chief of Deadline Hollywood, a website that has become, in its six years of existence, one of the best sites for breaking news on the entertainment industry. The fake Nikki Finke (@NIKKlFINKE) has 15 cats (Secretary McWhiskers, Deputy Chief Paws McSnuggles, Meow Zedong, and 12 more yet to be...

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6. October 1, 2012 06:50 AM

   Audit Notes: inside the Fed, few use Twitter, entitled ‘job creators’

   By Ryan Chittum

   The Wall Street Journal takes us inside how Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke convinced his colleagues to go all in on a third round of quantitative easing, in a nice page one story: Mr. Bernanke didn't see inflation as a threat but viewed unemployment as a deeper problem than he had realized. The central bank, in his view, needed to act....

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7. April 8, 2011 06:47 PM

   Audit Notes: Race to the Bottom, More Corporate Welfare, Money Is Fungible

   By Ryan Chittum

   The New York Times is good to take a look at how neighboring states race to the bottom bidding to give companies tax breaks to relocate to or stay in their states. A.G. Sulzberger (the publisher's son) tells the story through Kansas City, two cities with the same name straddling the Missouri and Kansas border that have seen such a...

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8. July 31, 2012 06:50 AM

   Audit Notes: Twitter’s censors, NYT apology, Craigslist’s aggregators

   By Ryan Chittum

   Twitter gave itself a serious black eye today, censoring a journalist for reporting the easy-to-figure-out corporate email address of NBC Universal's top Olympics executive. The Independent's LA bureau chief Guy Adams tweeted this today as part of his coverage of complaints about NBC's Olympics coverage: "The man responsible for NBC pretending the Olympics haven't started yet is Gary Zenkel. Tell...

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9. August 14, 2012 04:23 PM

   Fake Finke goes down (Updated)

   The Fake Nikki Finke Twitter account has been suspended

   By Sara Morrison

   Twitter took action Monday night following CJR's recent article about the two Nikki Finke Twitter accounts (one real, one fake, both seemingly called @NIKKIFINKE due to a quirk of Twitter's typography that makes lowercase Ls look like uppercase Is). Twitter allows parody accounts, but only if the user makes it clear that the account is fake in the handle, name,...

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10. October 21, 2011 02:32 PM

    Get a Life (Beyond the Web)

    Science writers struggle with time management

    By Cristine Russell

    FLAGSTAFF, ARIZONA — Freelance science writer Steve Silberman might not be physically addicted to Twitter, but sometimes it seems like it. With nearly 15,000 followers and 25,000 tweets, he gets an online rush when tweeting and surfing the web and can easily see hours slip by without knowing it, falling into what he calls his “Twitter alcoholic blackout.” Silberman, who...

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11. June 19, 2012 02:45 PM

    He said, she said

    Anyone can spread gossip with an iPhone, rather than depend on dishy columns

    By Kira Goldenberg

    Gossip, according to longtime New York Post columnist Earl Wilson, is hearing something you like about someone you don’t. I have no attachment to the celebrities whose tidbits were shared at a panel on gossip Monday night. But I’m not going to spill. I think people are allowed private lives, even though being in the know makes me a (momentary)...

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12. August 9, 2012 10:42 AM

    I tweet therefore I can

    Whose job is it to make sure tweeters stay within the law?

    By Hazel Sheffield

    Twitter now boasts 140 million active users, many of whom have used the social messaging service in the last two weeks to share instant results from the Olympics, glimpse behind-the-scenes moments with the athletes, and voice frustrations at mainstream media coverage, on-site organization, and the ticketing process. We’re in apparently in the middle of the first “Twitter Olympics,” which will...

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13. September 7, 2012 06:50 AM

    ICYMI: tweet chats

    Building a community 140 characters at a time

    By Sara Morrison

    Twitter is useful for many things, but its 140-character limit means conversation isn't easily one of them. That doesn't mean people aren't trying. Twitter live chats have sprung up over the past few years and are increasing in popularity, used by movies and businesses as a promotional tool or by communities to foster engagement. Basically, they're a virtual mixer, stripped...

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14. May 10, 2011 04:05 PM

    In Singapore, Social Media Aids Another Political Shift

    By Shibani Mahtani

    This past weekend was a historic one for Singapore, the small southeast Asian city-state that often escapes the attention of the world’s press, unless its rulers are threatening them with libel. On Saturday, Singapore’s ruling People’s Action Party (PAP) was dealt a small but sharp blow. While the PAP held on to power by winning 81 of the 87 elected...

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15. April 8, 2011 12:20 PM

    Is This the World’s Best Twitter Account?

    Meet Andy Carvin, verification machine

    By Craig Silverman

    Yesterday morning NPR’s Andy Carvin took a break from running one of the world’s best Twitter accounts to explain what it’s like to be a living, breathing real-time verification system. “All of this is more art than science,” he said. In truth, it sounds equal parts exhilarating and exhausting. As has been repeatedly detailed in other places, Carvin is the...

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16. April 16, 2012 02:53 PM

    Katie Roiphe’s Click Bait Win is a Discourse Fail

    The inflammatory essayist angers the feminist twitterverse but doesn't add any value to public discourse

    By Kira Goldenberg

    Among the clusters of folks I follow on Twitter—media critics, yoga bloggers, friends—the group that’s consistently most entertaining is the feminist journalists (sorry, friends). One of my favorite Internet things is their reaction to any public assertion that can be construed as anti-woman. The feminist journos commence intelligently snarking the original comment until they overtake the original narrative (disclosure: I...

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17. March 29, 2011 12:15 PM

    Last Night’s Shorty Awards #Winners

    By Lauren Kirchner

    On Monday night, The Times Center in New York hosted the third annual Shorty Awards, a very silly ceremony “honoring the best producers of short real-time content.” Awards were granted by the Real-Time Academy to the top tweeters in categories like politics, fashion, sports, actors, actresses, charity, and “connecting people.” The night’s winners are up on the Shorty website now;...

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18. November 4, 2011 12:18 PM

    Misinformation Propagation

    Scientists work to combat false memes

    By Craig Silverman

    Growing up in Rome, Filippo Menczer used to watch the local con artists offer gullible tourists a chance to buy the Coliseum. The scam worked often enough that it spread and other people began doing it, until a combination of police action and human intelligence defeated it. (Well, at least no one tried to sell me the Coliseum when I...

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19. September 25, 2012 03:00 PM

    Muck Rack hosts a meetup with NBC News

    With tips, chips, and a whole lot of live-tweeting

    By Hazel Sheffield

    Muck Rack, the startup that aggregates media tweets, hosted its first New York meetup at 30 Rock on Tuesday night with a little help from the social media department at NBC News. During a brief talk between bouts of networking over beer, organizers spoke about best practices for using social media in newsrooms. Editors devoted to social have to be...

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20. March 7, 2012 04:54 PM

    News Organizations That Haven’t Learned To Share

    The seams in certain outlets’ social sharing strategies

    By Justin D. Martin

    The Economist does not let users of its free app share news items via e-mail, LinkedIn, Twitter, Facebook, or anything else. An Economist representative told me over the phone that paid app users are permitted to share content, and that’s good, but the purpose of their free content is to lure payers, no? The Economist website allows users to share...

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