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"I recently asked for help from anyone interested in the future (actually that should probably be futures) of journalism to lend a hand with a mini survey on journalism skills.
In total 75 kind people volunteered their time and effort to answer the questions. I’m going to get to grips with it and add my two pence/cents worth on it over the next few days."
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News companies in general can benefit from using Twitter (although The Guardian does seem to be unable to write a story about it without attracting buckets of comment-scorn) but there are some rules to follow I'd say, with Follow being the operative word. If your newspaper Twitter account has 4000 followers and follows 2 people, even if whoever runs it responds to @ messages, the impression is that it's not engaging, it's broadcasting.
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Of course, bloggers are perfectly capable of quality journalism without holding an National Union of Journalists membership card, but as it turns out the three bloggers that have been hired all come from a journalism background.
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The crowd was as good value as the panel, with many of Journalism.co.uk’s favourite media bloggers: organiser Patrick Smith; Adam Tinworth from RBI; Kate Day, head of communities at the Telegraph; Martin Stabe, online editor at Retail Week; and Jon Slattery… of the Jon Slattery Blog.
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Tom Allan, Hannah Waldram and John Baron have been based at the Guardian's offices in Kings Place this week to undergo training and will be starting work on their beats of Edinburgh, Cardiff and Leeds respectively from next week.
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