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Via Media Helping Media:

A guide for the journalist who is new to Twitter but wants to find out how it can help them in their newsgathering and investigative journalism.

This is aimed at helping the sceptical journalist, who dismisses social networking tools, learn how to use them in their daily work.

Anyone who tries this ABC guide and doesn’t end up hooked, involved and contributing probably doesn’t have a news sense and should consider changing careers and looking for another job.

You have turned up at the office and there is nothing in the diary for the day, the prospects for the week ahead look bleak, you’ve rung round your contacts and they have nothing new, the competition is regurgitating the same wires as you and your mind is a blank. As you stare at the computer screen nothing interesting seems to be happening. What do you do?

There are loads of tools out there to help a journalist use Twitter for newsgathering, for this guide I have only touched on a few.

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