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Published in March 28th, 2009
Posted by Louise in Issues, Journalism, Media, News
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Anyone who pays any attention to the news cannot have failed to hear of the swingeing cuts in staff being made at newspapers and magazines up and down the UK. Thousands of journalists jobs have disappeared over the last year. Some papers and magazines have been closed down. Over the last couple of weeks, people [...]

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TwitterTitters – Ta-dah!

Published in March 4th, 2009
Posted by Louise in Issues, Media
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Or how we exploited social media to change the world… Less than a month ago, fellow journalist Linda Jones asked me to join her on a project to raise money for Comic Relief using the medium of Twitter. What a rollercoaster it has been! By harnessing Twitter, we somehow managed to create an entire book [...]

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