in journalism

Etan Horowitz

@etanowitz

delicious.com/twitterinjournalism

Benefits

• Finding sources and story ideas

• Staying in touch with community

• Crowdsourcing/live coverage

• Promotion and visibility

Tools

Issues

• Tipping off the competition• Must engage the community• To feed or not to feed• Transition from tweet to quote• PR folks invade• Real name vs. blog or beat name• Twittering the funeral• How personal do you get?