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Journalism can’t be a one-way street anymore

By Michael Becker | Published: February 7, 2010
I don’t know who made up the rule that news reporters aren’t supposed to respond to public comments about and critiques of their work. Maybe it’s not even a rule. Maybe its one of those arbitrary rules that somebody thought was a good idea once upon a time, though it really had no basis in [...]
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Making sense of social media

By Michael Becker | Published: October 28, 2009
Twitter is the whipping boy of social media because it’s one of the most visible networks out there, so please bear with me once again while I talk about general trends using Twitter as an example. A few people in the newsroom have expressed concerns about using Twitter. It’s too much noise and nonsense, too many [...]
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