In many of my classes, I require my students to use Twitter. While I hope each of them will come up with their own list of people to follow, here are a few that make up a good starting point:
- @PewResearch – Pew Research Center
One of the great sources of data on media and culture in US. - @DeenaNEWatchdog – Deena Winter
Journalist with NebraskaWatchdog.org. - @TimKarr – Tim Karr
Came to national attention by live streaming the Occupy movement. - @DanielLarison – Daniel Larison
Senior editor at The American Conservative - @NiemanLab – The Nieman Lab
A great journalism resource from the Nieman Lab at Harvard University - @mediaite – Mediaite
Lots of media news and commentary - @JeremyHL – Dr. Jeremy Lipschultz
Director of the School of Communication at University of Nebraska at Omaha. Lots of interesting links to political, media, and Nebraska news - @jayrosen_nyu – Dr. Jay Rosen
Dr. Rosen will challenge your conventional thinking on journalistic practice and objectivity. - @brianstelter – Brian Stelter
TV and digital media reporter for CNN - @dcagle – Daryl Cagle
Political cartoonist and curator of Cagle’s Political Cartoonists Index. Be prepared to have your mind expanded on political commentary - @fivethirtyeight – Nate Silver
Nate Silver writes the 538 blog on political and sports analysis. Really sharp, interesting guy. Well-respected across political boundaries. - @ezraklein – Ezra Klein
Blogs on politics, policy and business for new online news source Vox. One of rising stars of commentary based reporting. - @JonathanTurley – Jonathan Turley
One of the top progressive legal bloggers and commentators. - @VolokhC – Eugene Volokh
One of the authors of the Volokh Conspiracy, one of the top conservative legal blogs, hosted at the Washington Post. - @davidfrum – David Frum
Frum was a speechwriter for Bush 43 and takes a sometimes controversial approach to conservatism. - @ralphehanson – Ralph Hanson
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Hello Professor Hanson,
Me one of your students in Class the year of 2009. Re-reading the “7 truths of Mass Media” you published in 2007, thinking of “There is no MSM”, yet with today’s technology advancement people receive news from more consolidated sources and fewer channels, do you see there will be a dominant main stream media of mass communication coming up in the next few years? Say, in the year of 2020, we all only read news with our mobile devices, and maybe we tend to receive news from the major social networking tool like “Tweeds” or “Wechat” in China? Do you see any sighs of legacy means of media like TV/newspaper dying out?
A difficult question. I wouldn’t care to guess where all we might get our news by 2020. What I do know is that our media have to be willing to change as we move forward. Remember, with a social network, we are bringing together news from a wide variety of sources.