Twitter Accounts Journalism Students Should Follow
Earlier this month, USA Today Educate published a list of nine Twitter accounts that they say journalism students should follow. Here are my suggestions (considerably more than nine!), a mix of educators, journalists and techies; media accounts; and news-related organizations.
Nine Twitter accounts every journalism student should follow | USA TODAY CollegeFacebook, Tumblr and Instragram all have their purposes for college writers, but let's face it, Twitter is the social tool that any moder...- Twitter / @kegill/For J-StudentsGet updates via SMS by texting follow kegill to 40404 in the United States Codes for other countries Two-way (sending and receiving) shor...
- And here's the RSS feed for my j-students Twitter list Read on to see the accounts and profile bios.
- Individuals Recommended not so much because of "how they use Twitter" as for what their Tweets will do for your worldview and brain.
@acarvin - 128192 Tweets, 66992 Followers, 2161 Following.Senior strategist at NPR. Online community organizer since 1994. Former director of the Digital Divide Network. Writer. Photographer. Dad.
@brainpicker - 48564 Tweets, 159527 Followers, 307 Following.Interestingness curator and semi-secret geek obsessed with combinatorial creativity. Editor of @brainpickings & @explorer. Bylines for @W...
@brianstelter - 32677 Tweets, 115964 Followers, 2474 Following.I report on TV & digital media for The New York Times. RT & links aren't endorsements. Also: @brianstelter25 [email protected] | 212-556...
@BuzzFeed - 19024 Tweets, 74989 Followers, 2496 Following.Feeding the buzz and such. Tweets by @_mikehayes.
@dannysullivan - 29882 Tweets, 227264 Followers, 2400 Following.Editor of SearchEngineLand.com, covering Google, SEO, PPC and all aspects of search engines and search marketing.
@digiphile - 59230 Tweets, 124160 Followers, 1563 Following.Gov 2.0 @Radar Correspondent, @OReillyMedia: [email protected] Intrigued by technological change, taken with ideas, cooking, the outdoors...- Jay Rosen (@jayrosen_nyu) on TwitterSign up for Twitter to follow Jay Rosen (@jayrosen_nyu). I teach journalism at NYU, direct the Studio 20 program there, critique the press and try to grok new media. I don't do lifecasting but mindcasting on Twitter.
@jdlasica - 15211 Tweets, 16085 Followers, 3965 Following.Social media strategist, author, journalist, speaker. Founder of social media consultancy Socialmedia.biz & Socialbrite.org for nonprofit...
@journtoolbox - 8488 Tweets, 10153 Followers, 2506 Following.The Journalist's Toolbox from SPJ: Links and resources for reporters, editors, academics. Created by Mike Reilley, instructor @ DePaul Un...
@julieposetti - 36502 Tweets, 10239 Followers, 3611 Following.Journalist and J-academic interested in people, politics and the future. Researching social media; public broadcasting; reporting race & ...
@hrheingold - 20308 Tweets, 28045 Followers, 928 Following.Independent thinker, online instigator, novice educator, expert learner, offline gardener.
@Lavrusik - 15797 Tweets, 18428 Followers, 1068 Following.Journalist Program Manager @Facebook; Prof teaching Social Media Journalism @ColumbiaJourn; Digital Journalist; Media Futurist; Formerly @Mashable @nytimes
@mathewi - 52187 Tweets, 28729 Followers, 2561 Following.I'm a senior writer at GigaOm, a former columnist with the Globe and Mail and co-founder of the mesh conference in Toronto
@mediatwit - 10065 Tweets, 16736 Followers, 1553 Following.Executive editor of PBS MediaShift and Idea Lab; writer, editor, dad, singer, ridiculous-maker.
@moniguzman - 14904 Tweets, 15376 Followers, 7096 Following.Seattle journalist and community strategist searching for the heart of things. Columnist at @GeekWire. Secretary at @spjwash. Working wit...
@paulbradshaw - 23095 Tweets, 15182 Followers, 5840 Following.Author @ojhandbook . Founder @ojblog, @helpmeinvestig8 @hackshackersbhx. Visiting professor @cityjournalism, Leader, MA Online Journalism @bcumedia
@TheNewsChick - 20718 Tweets, 19669 Followers, 18446 Following.I'm a broadcast and online journalist in Seattle, anchoring the morning news on 97.3 KIRO FM
@yelvington - 12819 Tweets, 5214 Followers, 834 Following.New media strategist, journalist, newsroom change trainer-coach, technology tinkerer, disruptive influence.
