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Around the Web: Everything I need to know about Twitter I learned in j-school
Shared by Andrew Chavez on June 6, 2009
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Ann Handley has an great how-to about using journalistic writing skills on Twitter. "... news journalism works best when it’s simple and direct, at least in the story’s lead sentences. And simplicity (and other tenets of good journalism — like brevity, and clarity, and immediacy) are now cornerstones of how many businesses, brands and individuals communicate on Twitter," she writes.
About the author
Andrew Chavez
Associate Director for Digital Intiatives at Texas Center for Community Journalism, New Media Specialist at TCU Schieffer School of Journalism
Andrew Chavez serves as new media specialist for the Schieffer School and associate director of the Center. He is also the author of the Explorations in New Media blog, a Schieffer School project that focuses on trends in emerging media.
Before joining the Schieffer School as new media...