For reporters, is a retweet always just a retweet?
My Observer colleague, Yasmine El-Sabawi, drew my attention late last month to the controversy over Washington Post blogger Jennifer Rubin’s retweet of a controversial opinion regarding Palestinians....
View ArticleFacebook’s “subscribe” button a boon for journalists
Many public figures now have Facebook pages — either full-fledged profiles or the “fan” equivalent. This is especially true of politicians, who have embraced Facebook and other social media as a way of...
View ArticleThe Observer’s hypothetical social media guidelines – how do they compare to...
I will be the social media editor for the upcoming issue of The Observer, so I decided to tailor my presentation on journalists’ behavior on social media platforms as a brainstorming session for a...
View ArticleThe unwritten social media rule: use common sense
As I noted in my last post, the American Society of Newspaper Editors has determined a core set of 10 best practices journalists should follow when using social media. I’d argue that those 10...
View ArticleRomenesko uses social media to try saving his reputation
Normally, as I noted to my colleagues last week, it’s a bad idea for a reporter to use social media to air grievances about an editor or other company management. But every rule has an exception. This...
View ArticleMuck Rack — a digital double-edged sword for the social journo?
My colleague David Schultz just alerted me via Facebook to news of the relaunching of Muck Rack, a company that tracks what journalists post on Facebook, Twitter and other social media networks....
View ArticleKudos to the social media gurus at Va. Tech’s Collegiate Times
For all my harping on here about what journalists can do wrong when they use social media, there are many obvious examples of people in our profession actually doing a service to the community by...
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