Student Journalists Find Yet Another Medium In Which To Embarrass Themselves
Journalism professor Dan Reimold is disturbed by what he sees as a new trend: student journalists using Twitter to find and contact sources.
What’s wrong with them? Well, Reimold says, the character limits and public-by-necessity messages make the Tweeted introductions “resemble public cattle calls more than courteous private introductions.”
Reimold goes on to explain how these messages could be done better—they should be personalized rather than blasted to 50 people at once, they should be DMed (if possible), and they should be professional.
Here’s the thing.
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