Alan Rusbridger‘s article today, Why Twitter matters for media organisations listed a great many reasons for using Twitter.
During my years on Twitter I have found it is a great way to learn and I continue to learn a great deal by following other digital journalists, educators and developers.
Teaching and learning
Paul Bradshaw – Lecturer and social media consultant Online journalism blog – great tips Twitter.com/ojblog
Clay Shirky – Influential future media blogger
Glynn Mottershead – Journalism lecturer
Andy Dickinson – Online journalism lecturer and links; twitter.com/linkydickinson
Jeff Jarvis – The Buzz Machine blogger and journalism professor
Sue Llewellyn – BBC social media trainer and TV journo
Steve Yelvington – Newsroom trainer
Jay Rosen – Journalism lecturer at NYU
Roy Greenslade – City University, media commentator
Journalists
Alison Gow – Executive Editor, digital, for the Liverpool Daily Post & Liverpool Echo
Marc Reeves – The Business Desk, West Midlands
Richard Kendall – Web editor Peterborough Evening Telegraph
David Higgerson – Head of Multimedia, Trinity Mirror
Sam Shepherd – Bournemouth Echo digital projects
Jo Wadsworth – Brighton Argus web editor
Matt Cornish – journalist and author of Monkeys and Typewriters
Louise Bolotin – Journalist and hyperlocal blogger
Sarah Booker (me because I try to be useful)
Joanna Geary – Guardian digital development editor twitter.com/joannageary and twitter.com/joannaslinks
Adam Tinworth – Consultant and ex-Reed Business Information editorial development manager
Adam Westbrook – Lecturer and multimedia journalist
Patrick Smith – The Media Briefing
Shane Richmond – Telegraph Head of technology
Edward Roussel – Telegraph digital editor
Damian Thompson – Telegraph blogs editor
Kate Day – Telegraph communities editor
Ilicco Elia – Former Head of mobile Reuters
Sarah Hartley– Guardian local
Jemima Kiss – Guardian media/tech reporter
Kate Bevan – Guardian media/tech reporter
Josh Halliday – Media Guardian
Jessica Reid – Guardian Comment is Free
Charles Arthur – Tech Guardian editor
Heather Brooke – Investigative journalist, FOI campaigner
Kevin Anderson – Journalist, ex BBC, ex Guardian
Wannabehacks – Journalism students and trainees
Simon Rogers – Guardian data journalist and editor of the datastore
Jon Slattery – Journalist
Laura Oliver – Journalism.co.uk
Johann Hari – Journalist, The Independent (personal)
Guy Clapperton – Journalist and writer
Alan Rusbridger – Guardian editor
Specialists
George Hopkin – Seo evangelist
Nieman Journalism Lab – Harvard
Martin Belam – Guardian internet advisor
Tony Hirst – OU lecturer and data mash up artist
Christian Payne – Photography, video, mobile media
David Allen Green – Lawyer and writer
Judith Townend – Meeja Law & From the Online
Richard Pope – Scraperwiki director
Suw Charman-Anderson – social software consultant and writer
Scraperwiki – Data scraping and information
Chris Taggart – Founder of Openly Local and They Work for You
Suzanne Kavanagh – Publishing sector manager at Skillset, personal account
Greg Hadfield – Director of strategic projects at Cogapp, ex Fleet Streets
Francis Irving – Scraperwiki
Ben Goldacre – Bad Science
Philip John – Journal Local, Litchfield Blog, twitter.com/hyperaboutlocal
David McCandless – Information is Beautiful
Flying Binary – Cloud computing and visual analytics
Rick Waghorn – Journalist and founder of Addiply
News sources
Richard MacManus – Read Write Web
Mashable – Social media blog
House of Twits – Houses of Parliament
Hi Sarah
thank you very much for sharing this list. However, there is one thing I would like to point your attention to. The “Neiman Journalism Lab – Harvard” is am misspelling of “Nieman …” and therefore leads to an incorrect Twitter-Account. The correct/direct link (you get redirected) would be http://twitter.com/NiemanLab. Not big deal but I thought I should mention it.
Take care
Marek
Comment by Marek Hoffmann — 20/11/2010 @ 10:44 am |
Thanks for that. I’ve missed a few people off, too, so expect a few edits.
Comment by Sarah Booker — 20/11/2010 @ 12:17 pm |
Cheers Sarah
Comment by Laura Oliver — 22/11/2010 @ 10:38 pm |
Hi Sarah,
You might be interested to follow Joni Ayn, online journalism lecturer at City University London. @joniayn.
Thanks,
Olivia Bolton
@TheSocialMediaHub
Comment by Olivia Bolton — 25/11/2010 @ 11:18 am |
Ah yes. I follow her already.
Comment by Sarah Booker — 26/11/2010 @ 8:21 pm |
Hi Sarah,
Thanks for this list – some great people on here.
I’m a little confused about “Matt Cornish” – the link goes through to a Twitter page for “Ginger Elvis”, and there is no mention of “Monkeys with Typewriters”. I published a book of the same name last year (“Monkeys with Typewriters: Myths and realities of social media at work” Triarchy, 2009), and would be really interested to know more about Matt’s work on this subject.
Many thanks,
Jemima Gibbons
Comment by Jemima Gibbons — 28/11/2010 @ 8:24 am |
Matt tweets as Ginger Elvis. His blog is Monkeys and Typewriters.
monkeysandtypewriters.wordpress.com
Comment by Sarah Booker — 28/11/2010 @ 11:30 am |
I just re-visited your blog and saw this – thanks!
Comment by Jemima Gibbons — 18/04/2011 @ 1:38 pm
Now that I am getting more into twitter, I have to say this is one of the best lists I have found that is not filled with rappers or reality TV stars.
Comment by Rolie R — 27/07/2011 @ 8:37 am |