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THE YOUNG REPORTERS GUIDEISSUE ONE/JANUARY 2012

The Rise of Citizen Journalism

Internships:The TruthGetting Started:

A Young Hacks Guide

An Interview with Leeds Guide’s Simon O’Hare

PHOTOGRAPH BY; Alexander Booth : www.flickr.com/photos/47822606@N06/

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CONTRIBUTORS_

Haigh Simpson

James Archer

Maybelline Byrne

Lauren Foley

FOREWORD_

In such a highly competitive indus-try, young journalists often face chal-lenges and struggles, with little help or guidance, if any at all. This is why Scribe Magazine, are stepping up and seeking to tackle some of the issues you may face to get you over these hurdles and on the road to success. From internships and freelancing to laws and public issues, we will be doing our research and speaking to a range of people in order to provide you with the most honest help you can get.

Maybelline.

CONTENTS Issue One

4_ PROFILES - A Young Professionals Guide to Starting Out in Journalism

6_WEBSITES - A Guide to the Best Tools on the Web

7_LEEDS IN PHOTOS - The Cities Finest Buildings

8_ISSUES - A Look at the Growing Influence of Citizen Journalism

10_ INTERVIEW - Scribe Talks to Time Out Leeds Editor, Simon Barker

12_ISSUES - The Truth About Internships

14_ESSENTIALS - Must have gear for the young hack

15_TWITTER - The most influential tweeters, you need to follow

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Getting a foot on the ladder in journalism – one of the most competitive careers going – is not easy. Graduates enter an industry which is having a major facelift thanks to the rise of micro-blogging. Blottr and Twitter have broken down barriers between the media

and the general public, allowing ordinary people to share their views with the world like never before. This means that those looking to make a name for themselves have to work hard to stand out from the crowd. Scribe met up with two young journalists to hear what it takes to make the grade. By James Archer

Anna van Vliet,

23, Leeds

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Anna_I came here five years ago to study International Relations at Leeds University. I had some experi-ence of writing for free maga-zines when I lived in Holland, so I decided to start working on the student paper. It allowed me to learn about the newspaper side of

things without being under pres-sure to churn out loads of articles each week.

I think that getting involved with your student paper is really impor-tant, because it’s an opporrtunity to develop your skills and ideas in an open way. No-one is an expert or a professional there, so people

feel comfortable asking questions and helping each other along.

Even if you think an article you’ve written for your uni paper is silly or not very good, submit it any-way, because there’s plenty of time while you’re there to get advice from tutors and older students

Anna van Vliet,

23, Leeds

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about how you could make things better.I used to write about anything that popped into my head; some of it was good, some of it was bad and some of it was rubbish.

I remember writing one article in my first year about some faulty drains that were stinking out Hyde Park a few summers ago.

I knocked on doors, got interviews with residents and the council,

and by the time I’d got the article together the drains were fixed, the residents were happy and I’d come out with the dullest story ever. But it meant that I’d had the experience of getting out there and dealing with the general public and local authorities.

Now I write freelance. That basi-cally means working other jobs while you send stuff out all over the place. I’ve had articles published by the Yorkshire Post, Horse & Rider

and Walk magazine amongst oth-ers. Some articles I’ll get paid for, but alot of the time I’m writing for free and building up my CV for the future. It could put some people off that they might not just walk into a job, but that’s the way it is.

Eventually I want to move back to Holland and write for Iconique, which is a fashion magazine. I’m glad I came to England, and I hope I can keep making progress and start writing full-time.

Ellen Tippett, 20, Bradford

Ellen;I’ve worked for the Bradford Ar-gus for about a year. They have a really good paid work experience programme which I joined when I was 16, and I carried on going in at weekends and during the summer holidays when I was in sixth form.

Be prepared to give up your free time if you really want to get a head start in journalism. I balanced work experience with seeing friends, school and a part time job, but it was worth it because I knew that I wanted to get a full-time job at the paper when I finished my A-levels. The paper helped me to sit my NCTJ exams, and now I have the skills and knowledge I need without having to go through university.

The best thing about working on the Argus is getting out and about to meet people and hearing what they have to say for themselves. But you need to have thick skin, because people can say and do all sorts of mean and disgusting stuff when you’re on the job. I’ve had doors slammed in my face, kids hassle me, and been spat on once when I was doing vox pops in town for an arti-cle. You learn quickly that you’ve got to be careful because it can be quite

unpredictable.Unless I’m doing a feature for the paper I can expect to be writing three or four articles a day. You’ve got to keep yourself flexible, because one minute you can be sitting in court taking notes and the next interviewing Bradford Bull’s head coach. Ringing round the police and fire department is probably the worst part of my job because you end up dealing with pretty depressing situations.

Twitter is a good starting point for alot of stories. You might see an interesting link, or a quote from a PR company which forces you to dig a little deeper. Alot of MPs have Twitter pages, so it’s smart to keep an eye out for anything worthwhile.

I’ve written articles for a few music magazines, but what I really want to get involved in is radio. I’m always listening to Radio 1 and I’m looking to do some work for Radio Leeds, but I’m happy concentrating on the Argus for now

War reporting is something else which interests me, because I think its hard to get a sense of what really goes on in places like Iraq and Afghanistan from just watching the news.

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Toptwittertrends.com allows you to simultaneously monitor three trend-ing twitter feeds. This will save you time and ensure you don’t miss that next big development. It is easy to use and updates instantaneously. The site also has a handy built in translator; tweets of a foreign tongue are converted to English at the click of a mouse. Its major flaw is that only the feeds that are trending worldwide appear on the interface. It has the potential to be a brilliant journalistic tool but is severely hampered by the inability to localize searches.

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Toptwittertrends.comKlout.com monitors activity across various social media to create ‘online influence ratings’. A Klout score ranges from 0-100 and is effectively a measure of reach and activity online. Results are broken down to allow you to see the size of active audience, influence, and the likelihood content will be acted on. It is an interesting way of seeing how effectively you are using social media and a useful research tool.

Klout.com

Toptwittertrends.comThe UK’s largest user generated news service. Breaking news stories often appear here hours before the major corporations pick them up. If you are after a scoop, make this your first port of call; just make sure you check your facts.

Blottr.com

Toptwittertrends.comNewsnow.co.uk is a rather dated form of search engine, however it is an extremely valuable news gathering tool. Scroll through the topics and sub topics to tailor your news feed. Excellent for monitoring what going on in your field, it is particularly useful for sports journalists.

By Haigh Simpson

Newsnow.co.uk

The internet is the modern journalists toolbag. There are thousands of useful sites out there designed to make your job easier. Here are a few of our reccomendations...

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Toptwittertrends.comBen Goldacre (bengoldacre) Nick Sutton (suttonnick)Radio 4 World at One editor

Although the weather in Leeds leaves a lot to be desired in these wintery months, the stunning architecture still stands proud amongst the bustle of the city. Here are a few images I took whilst on a short walk through the city centre.

Leeds Art gallery was built in 1888 and now houses a world class collection of

20th century British art and exciting temporary exhibitions.

Leeds Civic Hall is a civic building which houses Leeds City Council, located in

Millennium Square, Leeds.

The Rose Bowl is a leeds Metropolitan lecture theatre ’pod’ which contains a 250

seat theatre, two 140 seat and four 60 seat theatres.

This is the Leslie Silver building, the main campus for Leeds Metropolitan Students

in the city centre.

Leeds Town Hall is one of the largest town halls in the United Kingdom and as of

2008 is the eighth tallest building in Leeds.

Leeds market was opened in 1822 as an open air market, nowadays it is fully

enclosed and sells a variety of fresh pro-duce, clothes and lifestyle goods.

Leeds In Photos

The Rise of Citizen Journalism: Power to the People? By Haigh Simpson

Was 2011 the year news changed forever? Think back to the year’s biggest

stories, the death of Osama Bin Laden, the London riots, the tsu-nami in Japan. Statistics suggest you probably found out about, or witnessed these via some form of citizen journalism. Eagle eyed twitter users learned of the events before the established news cor-porations had been able to react. When they did, regular people on the ground provided some of the most striking imagery. Perhaps the best example of this was the Arab Spring. It was the

first global event where news desks relied almost entirely on the public for their coverage. Journal-ists found it hard to get into the countries to cover the uprisings, as it happened they did not need to. The images we saw on TV and the accounts we read in the papers were not those of profes-sional journalists, they were cap-tured, spoken or written by the members of the public witness-ing the events first hand. Mobile phone technology and social networking sites allowed images, videos and reports to circulate rapidly, just as they had made

the organization and spread of the protests possible in the first place. It was, if not the birth than certainly the proliferation of citizen journalism.Blottr is the UK’s biggest ‘user generated news service’, only a year into existence it receives over 1.5million hits per month. Stories are generated, and substantiated by voluntary con-tributors. Its aim is to publish breaking news faster than the traditional news broadcasters can. Indeed it has proved to be incredibly effective in doing so; its unique coverage of the Lon-

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don riots was picked up, and recycled by many of the estab-lished news corporations. When asked whether he saw Blottr as a threat to mainstream media Blotter founder Adam Baker said that he preferred to think of citizen journalism as part of it. He added, “We will be main-stream at some point. We work closely with traditional media, not against it…what they are realizing is that we have the ability to break news stories long before they do so we have really unique footage of events. They work with us to use it as part of their coverage.” Anybody is able to post stories on the site once they are registered giving Blottr a ground force well in excess of any news corpora-tion. Reports, images and videos can be posted on the site within minutes, leaving the profession-als scrambling to get to the scene in their wake. However a major question remains over citizen journalism, the threat of misinfor-mation.Can it be classed as journalism when it does not necessarily have to adhere to the same codes of practice? Adam Baker points out that the site does take the issue of authenticity seriously, and while the site itself is not responsible for the validity of the content it does have complex algorithms in place to help substantiate the stories. These take into account the source of the story and their user history as well as monitoring the number of links and other materi-als backing up the story. Mem-bers can also update and cor-rect reports as more information becomes available, all of which is accessible to the user.There is always going to be a question mark surrounding the authenticity of citizen journalism. It is an open forum that is suscep-tible to misuse by those with an ulterior objective. However, the same may be argued of the mod-ern, business-driven news corpo-ration. The difference according

to Adam Baker is that Blotter, and by extension citizen journalism is concerned only with breaking and communicating news. This is also the reason he says it is not a threat to the traditional role of a journalist, “Paid professional journalists role is about analytical journalism. That’s why I pick up the guardian. Our citizen journal-ists don’t go into that much detail, we just break news”. Paul Lewis of the guardian has demonstrated how professional journalists can use citizen journal-ism to aid and substantiate their investigations. In a recent TED conference he describes this process as ‘crowd sourcing the news’. Evidence gathered via social media was enough to force an internal police investigation over the death of Ian Tomlinson at the 2009 G-20 protests. At the Bevins Prize that same year his work was described as “a triumph for the assertion of civil liberty.” In embracing citizen journalism in a positive fashion he is leading the way toward a new kind of investi-gative journalism and its resource pool is huge. When used the right way user generated content is in-strumental to modern journalism. When asked if he thought this represents the future Adam Baker replied, “Yes, yes I do.”

The images we saw on TV and the

accounts we read in the

papers where not those of professional journalists, they were captured, spoken or

written by the members of the public witnessing the events first hand.

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Maybelline Byrne speaks to Simon O’Hare I was quite surprised when I met the deputy editor of the Leeds Guide

magazine, Simon O’Hare, at his career path that lead him into this position. I was expecting a stack of internships and placements behind him along with a degree in journalism or the media, but in fact what he told me was quite the opposite.

‘I studied sociology at university, but I always new I wanted to work as a journalist. I never thought I’d done enough or perhaps had the confidence to do what was needed to fulfil that though. The only work placement I did which was related to journalism was with a free local newspaper as part of a school work experience placement when I was about 16. Other than that I didn’t do any formal work placements or internships, which is probably quite unusual really.’

After graduating he did many jobs before he finally got a job working in the media sector working for Adfero, a company he describes as a news agency, though in truth a crossover between news and copywriting PR.

‘I had to write a large number of short articles, around 20-25 every working day, of 150-200 words each. I was writing news articles to go on various clients’ websites. The articles would have to contain certain key words, with the aim of that company moving up the Google search rankings for specific terms for example cheap holidays, cheap international phone calls, best plumbing services.’

He moved from working there straight to the Leeds Guide where he submitted the occasional piece on an unpaid basis before working his way up to a section editor paid on freelance basis. He achieved the position of Deputy Editor in May 2010, working above a team of 10-15 staff members.

When asked whether or not he enjoys it, the smile on his face says it all. ‘There is significantly more money to be earned in a number of other industries than the media, so you need to get enjoyment from what you are doing to counterbalance that.’

Unlike Simon, most young journalists have to take up a number of placements in order to bulk up their cv and make

Maybelline Byrne meets Simon O’Hare to find out how he gained position as deputy edtior at Leeds’ most successful entertainment and culture magazine, the Leeds Guide...

INTERVIEW them stand out from the crowd. The Leeds Guide has one or sometimes even two interns working their every week.

‘Typically I receive several emails every week. But in order to chose who we take on we set requirements. We ask for a copy of the applicant’s CV and a couple of examples of their writing, published or unpublished. You can also tell a lot about someone’s writing ability from their initial email.’

The internships usually last two weeks but Simon says they can be flexible. ‘Sometimes they are just a week, or sometimes people come in over a longer period for just a day or two a week.’

But like many placements in journalism, the Leeds Guide internships are done on a volunteer basis, which Simon puts down to the journalism industry itself, rather than the individual employer.

‘Journalism jobs are notoriously low-paid and print companies are facing a particularly difficult era, partly due to the rise of online - if people can find almost anything online for free, you need to offer something very compelling to make them want to buy your newspaper/magazine.

‘It may be argued that unpaid place-ments drive down the wages of fulltime employees - if there are thousands of people queuing up to apply for unpaid internships then that can obviously benefit the businesses but not the employees, but it’s also genuinely the case that many media companies simply don’t have the funds to pay high wages or take on more paid staff.’

‘I can’t see placements at The Leeds Guide ever been paid in the near future, due to financial constraints in this industry.’

But he doesn’t think that unpaid placements are necessarily a bad thing, saying that he would have been delighted to get the chance to gain such good experience and to get his work published.

He says the intern needs to have a positive attitude, take all the opportunities they can and leave a good impression, and I could tell that this is what he expects from interns who are lucky enough to gain a couple of weeks at the Leeds Guide.

But I ask about those who want to do interns further a field, in maybe a national newspaper or television station.

‘It can be difficult for people to afford to do an unpaid work experience

placement - especially for people living in the north, given that most media companies are based in London, and also given the big increase in student fees and debt in recent years.

‘But having said all that, what with blogs etc, it’s in one sense easier now than it ever has been to gain an audience for your writing, regardless of your contacts.

We are getting involved with a scheme being run by a charity in partnership with Leeds City Council which aims to help unemployed people get back to work. An intern starting with us next week is part of this project, so that will be fulfilling to get involved with.’

Most young journalists know that when doing an internship for a big organisation, the most work they are often likely to be doing is making cups of tea in an editorial office, but Simon says at the Leeds Guide it is far from this.

‘Our interns are very hands on. Because we’re a small company, they get the chance to write lots of articles for our magazines and website and, depending on the work we have on at the time, even conducting interviews. Past interns have been known to carry out celebrity interviews.

‘Several people have come back a second time since I’ve been working here. People are always welcome to apply for another internship.’

But with limited places in journalism interns and such a high number of applicants, interns need to make them self stand out from the crowd. Having a positive and personable attitude, a keenness to help out and be of benefit to their colleagues and a good writing ability are the key qualities which Simon says do this. And he recommends to read and write as much as you possibly can. ‘It might sound silly, but do it. Read the news, read books, magazines, blogs, build up your general knowledge, have an inquisitive mind and always be willing to learn how to write well - no one can do it perfectly and there is always room for improvement. Also it’s very helpful to have interests, experiences, passions or specialist knowledge, as they can all help to fuel great writing.’

The Leeds Guide magazine is published monthly and can be found in newsagents and selected book stores in Leeds and North Yorkshire.

www.leedsguide.co.uk

‘Journalism jobs are

notoriously low paid and print companies are

facing a particularly difficult era,

partly due to the rise of online - if people can find almost anything

online for free, you need to

offer something very compelling to

make them want to buy your newspaper

or magazine.’

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Internships are an accepted part of business life and can be a valuable way into a competi-tive industry but could the journalism trade be taking advantage of this regular supply in enthusiastic young journalists looking for work experience?

Internships aim to offer students the opportunity to gain employment experi-ence and apply the knowledge gained throughout their degree to real life work-ing situations alongside giving them the unique opportunity to network with influential busi-ness people who specialise in their desired career. For em-ployers, there are also benefits associated with offering place-ments to students as the expe-

rience provides an opportunity to improve the skills of new entrants to the industry, raise the profile of career oppor-tunities available within the organisation and also helps to develop management skills for existing staff.

Whilst it is clear that intern-ships can potentially offer both students and employers unique benefits, I also wanted to look deeper into the less honest side of internships and investigate the issue of unpaid placements as this appears to be a recur-ring concern amongst students who feel they have been taken advantage of during their time as an intern. There has recently been uproar in the media sur-rounding the online job site reed.co.uk as the recruitment

website advertised 46 intern-ships which generated 119 applications for jobs entitled ‘Internship-Receptionist/Ad-ministrator’, ‘Internship-Sec-retarial & PA’ and ‘Internship-Executive Assistant’; these posts were advertised as in-ternships but in fact they were full time positions which should have been paid in line with the national minimum wage. For those who were taken advan-tage of by this company, they were paid £92.50 per week when in reality they should have earned a minimum of £237.20. Regarding intern-ships, the only instances in which an intern would not be entitled to earning the mini-mum wage would be if the company was a charity or if the student was simply shadowing someone as a volunteer; if an intern is working for a company and performing a role then they should be paid the minimum wage of £6.08 for workers over the age of 21.

Whilst researching the ongoing issue of internships and unpaid work placements I discovered the website wannabehacks.co.uk, this blog is created and maintained by graduates and undergraduates to provide advice and guidance for stu-dents interested in a journalism career. The blog is divided into subcategories therefore each blogger has a specific subject to focus upon: The intern, The jobseeker, The undergrad, The entrepreneur and The post grad are each categories which are updated regularly with specific and useful information. Emily Handford is the intern blog-ger for wannabehacks.co.uk,

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Emily is an English Literature graduate who has interned at number of publications at Bauer Media including, Heat, Closer and More! Magazine, therefore she has an impressive knowledge of interning and job seeking as a graduate journal-ist. I asked Emily how she felt about unpaid placements and whether she believed students could potentially be taken advantage of whilst interning at a company: ‘Having under-taken many unpaid placements myself, working for free is a complex issue. If work experi-ence did not exist, how would aspiring journalists get into the industry? It would become a very much a closed shop. However, I feel now due to the recession and the desperation of unemployed graduates, em-ployers could take advantage of the situation.’ This balanced response highlights a pre-dicament which many students face, they need an internship in order to gain experience but also deserve respect from their employers which is not always available nowadays because there is simply not enough money in businesses.

I also wanted to ask Emily how vital she feels work place-ments are for a future career in journalism, I wondered if a three year degree focused upon teaching students essential skills related to the journal-ism industry was enough for a graduate to gain employment. Emily’s opinion was that expe-rience is essential to become a journalist, she also boldly stated that ‘having a degree in journalism is simply not enough’. Emily felt strongly that students can only truly acquire a feel for journalism in a work-ing environment and that from there students will find it easier to decide if the journalism

career is the right path for them in addition to learning what type of journalism they want to go into. I agree that a degree alone cannot prepare you for the world of a working journal-ist but I also felt that Emily’s statement about work experi-ence aiding young journalists in finding their niche provides another benefit for students looking for work experience.

I have spoke with a number of Students at Leeds Metropoli-tan University regarding their experience of finding an intern-ship and the general consen-sus for the Leeds area is that students don’t feel there are enough placements available; a lot of internships are based in London and abroad which proves difficult for local stu-dents as they feel they could be missing out on the best oppor-tunities. I asked Emily if she felt that businesses are currently providing students with enough opportunities for internships and she felt that there definitely were enough opportunities out there for unpaid work experi-ence, paid internships in her experience were a lot harder to come by. The general rule when looking for an internship is to apply for placements in vol-ume and be prepared to work unpaid for a limited amount of time in order to gain the ex-perience necessary to benefit a

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As Emily has worked for free at a number of publications as an intern before becoming a well paid, successful journalist, I wondered what her memo-ries of work experience were and whether she felt that those experiences shaped her career and made it easier for her to find a job: ‘My memories of work experience are positive, hard work but very fun! Work-ing at Heat magazines was a highlight, the office was fun, the people friendly and I even managed to get paid as a free-lancer whilst I was there which was a bonus! I have definitely benefited from my experiences as I have recently got a job as an editorial assistant, which without my experiences at magazines I doubt I would have got.’ This is evidence that with hard work and perseverance, students can gain unique ex-perience and knowledge during an internship which will almost certainly assist them in hav-ing the confidence to find a job which they are satisfied with in the future.

After speaking with Emily, I felt I had a clearer view of why being an intern as a student is so important for a future ca-reer in journalism. I agree that some businesses could take advantage of the regular stream of enthusiastic and passionate students looking for experience however I believe these com-panies are in the minority and hope that students can con-tinue to work alongside jour-nalists throughout their time at university in order to ensure a well balanced and rounded education.

By Lauren Foley

‘Having a degree in

journalism is simply not

enough.’

Arthur regularly tweets about goings on at the likes of Apple and Microsoft, and has recently picked up on security problems on Facebook after private photos of Mike Zuckerberg leaked online.

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Sony ICD B600 dictaphone

iPhone 4

RRP: £25/pm

McNae’s Essential Law for Journalists

RRP: £17RRP: £16

PROSVoice-activated commands make the dictaphone easy to use.

Folder function allows you to separate audio files into four dif-ferent categories. Useful if you are interviewing alot of people across different subjects (sport/politics etc) or for different newspapers.

Clear playback quality through headphones.

VOR function stops recording during silent pauses, which helps to save battery.

CONSNo USB portal, which means you can’t save recordings onto your computer.

VOR function doesn’t work well in noisy environments like pubs.

Battery life only lasts around 5 to 7 hours, so keep spares handy.

VERDICTThe B600 does what it says on the tin, and it represents good value for money. However, the fact that it doesn’t have a USB portal seems a bit odd, and the battery life could be better.

PROS PROSDocuments To Go app allows you to create and edit Word documents. You can write articles without taking your laptop out and about

Web and e-mail enabled. Allows you to file articles whilst on the job, and gives your editor opportunity for quick and easy feedbackFacetime lets you interview other iPhone users with video calls. Record function means you can store facetime chat

CONSQuite lightweight and breakable

Facetime chat uses up alot of battery, which makes long interviews a problem. Skype is probably a better option for long-distance interviews

Phone can overheat if you’re using too many apps at once

Covers important areas such as defamation and contempt of court, as well as more recent Includes end-of-chapter rundowns of the major points

Includes end-of-chapter rundowns of the major points covered for easy reference

Links to online material for extra reading on the subjects covered by each chapter

CONSDoesn’t offer end-of-chapter questions to test your knowledge on what you’ve just read

Writing style is quite dense, so be ready to handpick vital information as you read

VERDICTThe iPhone certainly makes your The iPhone certainly makes a journalist’s life easier, but it’s hard work writing entire articles with the touch-type keyboard

VERDICTEvery journalist should have this book. It’s a comprehensive guide on how to keep your nose clean when doing the job, and could stop you from getting in serious trouble for what you publish

Arthur regularly tweets about goings on at the likes of Apple and Microsoft, and has recently picked up on security problems on Facebook after private photos of Mike Zuckerberg leaked online.

Digital news editor for Sky NewsNeil Mann has racked up thousands of tweets on hundreds of subjects. Re-cently he’s been tweeting about Syria, Jeremy Clarkson and the Leveson inquiry into media ethics.

Neil Mann (fieldproducer)

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Editor of the GuardianAlan Rusbridger has been keeping a close eye on the Leveson inquiry, pick-ing up on ex-News of the World journal-ist Paul McMullan’s argument that “the hacking of Milly Dowler’s phone was not a bad thing to do.”

Alan Rusbridger (arusbridger)

Toptwittertrends.com Presenter of Daily Politics Show

Andrew Neil(afneil)

Ben Goldacre

Twitter has changed the way news is broken and shared around the world. Scribe takes a look at journalists with a serious amount of Tweets under their belt. By James Archer

Writes ‘Bad Science’ Guardian columnGoldacre has been tweeting about Jer-emy Clarkson, along with the Conserva-tive lobbying scandal.

As expected Andrew Neil’s tweets tend to focus on goings on in Westminster. The chancellor’s Autumn statement has been occupying his feed along with the Eurozone crisis.

Guardian technology editorCharles Arthur (charlesarthur)

Krishnan Guru-Murphy (krishgm)Channel 4 News presenterGuru-Murphy has been looking abroad recently, commenting on press freedom in South Africa, as well as Herman Cain’s decision to drop out of the US Presidential race.

Rory Cellan-Jones (ruskin147)BBC technology correspondent Cellan-Jones has been keeping his follow-ers up to date with a range of iPhone apps recently, as well as a piece he is working on about the future of social media.

Nick Sutton (suttonnick)Radio 4 World at One editorSutton likes to tweet the next day’s head-lines. He’s also been tweeting David Mili-band’s thoughts on Afghanistan and Boris Johnson’s thoughts on the Eurozone in the past week.

(bengoldacre)

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