Students worked feverishly as a team to post coverage of the ONA 2011 Boston conference. It was early Saturday morning when the students closed down the newsroom, posting stories and video, ready to return a few hours later to resume coverage. Several media professionals went inside the story and behind the black curtain to share secrets about journalism today.

As fuzzy as the future role of social media is in the journo world, accuracy, it seems, is still a top newsroom priority. Panelists of The Master Class: The Craft of Twitter answered audience questions regarding best practices for attributing Tweets, and how to verify that the information in these 140-character blasts is true.

When Vadim Lavrusik left Mashable and joined Facebook, social journalists who know him rejoiced. Suddenly, the biggest social network had a face and a real-life friend for the media. Lavrusik is very responsive to requests, questions and concerns from online journalists, especially in a very active social journalists Facebook group.