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Podcast #2: Ethan Klapper, Huffington Post
Ethan Klapper is a political and social media junkie. So, with the 2012 presidential election heating up, the Rye, N.Y., native is in the thick of things as Huffington Post’s social media editor for...
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Kate Gardiner: Time for journalists to take back their audience
By Michael O’Connell Social media is not a fad. Kate Gardiner, a New York-based journalist and social media consultant, said journalists need to recognize that truth and continue to use social media to...
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Love to hate the media? Download a daily dose of media criticism
By Michael O’Connell A lot of people hate the media. That’s proved to be something of a boon for The Daily Download, the news and media-criticism website. “We’re scum of the earth to a lot of people,...
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Sports journalists blaze new trails via social media, multiple platforms
By Megan Cloherty WASHINGTON – Sports reporting is one of the first jobs in journalism where multiple mediums were expected out of a reporter’s daily product. Even years ago, when the black and white...
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Social media expert Mandy Jenkins explains how to crowdsource breaking news
By Michael O’Connell On Sept. 1, 2010, a lone gunman walked into the Discovery Channel building in Silver Spring, Md. That was the day Mandy Jenkins first realized the true power of social media....
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Poynter’s Mallary Jean Tenore reports on challenges facing young journalists
By Michael O’Connell The journalism industry continues to redefine itself following the arrival of the Internet. Advertising has dried up, major newspapers have folded for good and many experienced...
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Freelance journalist Nina L. Diamond finds her home on Twitter
By Michael O’Connell Nina L. Diamond has been a freelance journalist and humorist for more than 30 years, which meant that she never really had an office. That all changed with Twitter. “I’ve worked on...
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Alex Weaver: Covering the Boston Marathon Bombing
By Julia O’Donoghue On April 15, when most spectators were running away from the blasts at the Boston Marathon finish line, Alex Weaver was rushing toward it. Weaver covered the marathon bombing and...
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Steffen Konrath – News as a signal
By Ellen Kortesoja Steffen Konrath felt the immense weight of the Twitterverse early on, but instead of becoming bogged down, he evolved his definition of news. “News is not an article, news is a...
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#133 – Texas storms spark love of weather
The little active weather Ian Livingston saw as a kid growing up in Southern California was interesting enough, but it wasn’t until he moved to Texas that he sat up and took notice. “The first time I...
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#138 – Ouroboros: Podcast eats its tail
Our podcast is based on conversations we have with journalists about how they do their jobs. Occasionally, someone asks us about how we do our podcast and we have a conversation about that. That was...
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#144 – Vox founders look back at first year
Although Ezra Klein, one of the founders of Vox.com, considers himself something of a nihilist, he’s not that worried about polls that say large portions of the country still doesn’t understand the...
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#171 – Engaging audiences via social journalism - Twitter – It's All Journalism
Anybody can figure out how to use Facebook, Twitter or the latest and greatest social media platform. But how can journalists use those platforms as tools to better engage with an audience, encouraging...
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#174 – You can use Twitter smarter - Twitter – It's All Journalism
Madalyn Sklar could probably be considered a Twitter super-user. An early adopter of nearly every social media platform since MySpace, she hosts the weekly #TwitterSmarter Podcast. And every Thursday...
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#179 – With social media, now more than ever — listen! - Twitter – It's All...
With so many changes going on in social media these days, journalists need to be doing one simple thing, according to Natalie DiBlasio. They need to listen. “I’ve found that one thing I’m really trying...
View Article#189 – How publications can thrive online - Twitter – It's All Journalism
Having a high-profile, exclusive interview is a wonderful thing for a publication. Failing to include the name of a massively influential artist in said exclusive interview will make that article...
View Article#190 – That retweet might actually be an endorsement - Twitter – It's All...
In the days of Edward R. Murrow, Walter Cronkite and even Peter Jennings, the reporter served his or her community as the conduit through which all important information passed. Those days are over....
View Article#267 – Don’t slide into someone’s DMs on first follow - Twitter – It's All...
Twitter might be the most social of all the social media platforms. But sending automated direct messages to new followers is the best way to make someone anti-social. Madalyn Sklar, Twitter and...
View Article#2: Ethan Klapper, Huffington Post - It's All Journalism
Ethan Klapper is a political and social media junkie. So, with the 2012 presidential election heating up, the Rye, N.Y., native is in the thick of things as Huffington Post’s social media editor for...
View Article#18 – Kate Gardiner: Time for journalists to take back their audience - It's...
Social media is not a fad. Kate Gardiner, a New York-based journalist and social media consultant, said journalists need to recognize that truth and continue to use social media to build communities...
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