The Washington Post reports on the curious case of The New York Times reporter, Jodi Rudoren, who has been given her own social media minder who will be looking at every Tweet and Facebook status update that she writes to check and edit them before sending.

We all know that social media can be tricky and that its instantaneous nature can cause huge issues for us all, which is a problem considering how essential Twitter has become to most working journalists today. There have been cases of journalists Tweeting in haste and suffering Twitter storms at length. It has in the worst cases proved the undoing of some journalists. Read More »

Earlier this week we were reading about how a growing number of journalists “can’t work without social media” and read Twitter as the most important of those journalistic tools.

Today Twitter has put out its basic four tips for journalists using Twitter, which is a useful addition and reminder to the many social media guides and tips that have been published including some here, which have proved some of the most popular posts on The Wall.

Those have included “The best social media policy ever written” and The New York Times with its ‘Five guiding principles of social media’.  So what has Twitter got for us? Read More »

Since its arrival social media has certainly changed the way journalists work, how stories are developed, and how news breaks.

It has had positive effects, without a doubt, but there are also concerns about its effect on productivity and the disruption it can have on working patterns as journalists balance the desire to stay connected with the need to switch off and get down to work.

New research highlights what many of us already know, which is that social media has created a dependency among those working in the media with more than a quarter of UK journalists saying they are unable to work without it. I’m surprised it’s only a quarter. Read More »

Good piece on Poynter hightlighting a debate taking place on the web this week about Twitter and what it is doing to news and how news is covered online.

We’ve kind of been here before (numerous times). On The Wall when we asked the question last year, for instance, we asked if social was media killing journalism. The answer I thought was convincingly no, but as Mark Rock put it social media is fundamentally changing the system.

So what about Twitter? Yes those 140 characters that many of us tweet throughout the day and week. Are we over doing it? Read More »