Journalist Twitter Analysis

Sarah Jones works as the Deputy Editor of Al Jazeera America. Social media reporting is a big part of her journalism, she tweets multiple times a day and has won the 2014 ShortyAwards’ Best Journalist in Social Media. I could actually find little evidence of her promoting her own work but she tweets and retweets a lot from other news sites. Her constant tweets show that she is dedicated to social media journalism and flows news well. Jim Armstrong is a reporter at WBZ and in contrast, does not post so much, one every two or so days seems to be his pattern, his social media journalism usage is therefor not very high. He has retweets of some WBZ news but a lot of his posts are behind the scenes photos. There is little to no reference to any journalism from other sources besides WBZ. Shawna Thomas who is a senior editor at Meet The Press is another journalist who uses their twitter often, posting multiple times a day. This includes retweets and reference to other peoples journalism while there is also reference to her own stories. I could not find that any of these journalists had a separate personal account from their journalism either.