Student journalist starter kit: who to follow on Twitter
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I’ve created a Twitter starter list for my student journalists at City University, London in an effort to help them find interesting digital journalism folk to follow.
It’s one person’s take and very much aimed at UK students. If I have missed an account you feel digital journalism students should follow, message me @SarahMarshall (I accept DMs) and I’ll consider adding.
Back in 2012 I compiled a similar list when I was at Journalism.co.uk. (It’s striking how different this list is due to job hopping during the past four years.)
Students, you can pick and choose who you follow or opt to follow the entire list (which is at this link). I urge you to follow far and wide and to venture outside of the media bubble.
Journalist starter list
Adam Tinworth @adders
Blogger, digital journalist, trainer, consultant (and familiar face to those on the Interhacktives course)
Alberto Cairo @albertocairo
Data visualisation journalist
Alison Gow @alisongow
Allison is digital innovation editor for Trinity Mirror Regionals. A long time champion of digital for the local newspaper publisher.
American Press Institute @AmPress
If I could only follow one RSS feed for industry news it would be this one. Don’t use RSS like it’s 10 years ago? Don’t worry, there’s a daily email you can sign up to.
Amy Webb @amywebb
Amy famously leads a session at ONA every year on future trends.
Anthony De Rosa @Anthony
Ex Reuters and Circa, now at the Daily Show.
Aron Pilhofer @pilhofer
Aron led the social and interactive team at the New York Times before a two-year stint as executive editor at the Guardian.
Breaking News @BreakingNews
Set this up as a user column in Tweetdeck. The one account you need to keep an eye on to track big breaking news.
Brian Stelter @brianstelter
A former New York Times media reporter. You’ll be familiar with him if you’ve seen the film Page One.
Charlie Beckett @CharlieBeckett
Charlie leads the Polis think tank at LSE.
Chris Sutcliffe @chrismsutcliffe
News editor for the Media Briefing. He’s one of a number of reporters in this list covering the news industry.
Dan Gillmor @dangillmor
An author and educator.
Daniel Bentley @DJBentley
Daniel built a profile while still a student by showing digital smarts. He’s worked on news app Circa and is now at Fortune.
David Holmes @spikefodder
Journalism lecturer at Sheffield.
Elana Zak @elanazak
Elana grew a following while a student (in the UK). She’s since worked at WSJ, Boston upstart Stat and is now at CNN Money.
Eliot Higgins @EliotHiggins
Founder of Bellingcat, Eliot is known for investigating atrocities in Syria, the downing of MH17 and other events using social media, verification techniques and patience.
Emily Bell @emilybell
Director of the Tow Center at Columbia. Ex Guardian.
Felicity Morse @FelicityMorse
A joy to follow for her humour, Felicity is a digital editor at the Independent.
George Brock @georgeprof
Professor of journalism at City University (so of course you should be following him, City students).
Ian Burrell @iburrell
Previously the Independent’s media reporter. When I started out reporting on the news industry he was probably my most useful follow.
Jack Marshall @JackMarshall
Jack is a media reporter for The Wall Street Journal.
James Ball @jamesrbuk
James is one of Buzzfeed UK’s star reporters and has an impressive reporting career; from the Grocer (I seem to remember) via Wikileaks, the Bureau of Investigative Journalism and the Guardian. He’s worked on the biggest leaks and investigations of the 21st century, including the NSA revelations.
Janine Gibson @janinegibson
Ex Guardian, now editor-in-chief of Buzzfeed UK.
Jasper Jackson @JaspJackson
Previously at the Media Briefing, Jasper is now writes about the media industry for the Guardian.
Jay Rosen @jayrosen_nyu
A journalism professor with a big profile.
Jeff Jarvis @jeffjarvis
An author, educator and blogger. The self-confessed media pundit’s pundit.
Jim Roberts @nycjim
Jim is a one-man news machine. He’s ex New York Times, Reuters and Mashable.
Joanna Geary @JoannaUK
Joanna went from The Times to the Guardian to Twitter. She’s about to take the lead role for Moments.
John Barnes @JohnMNBarnes
John is senior at B2B publisher Incisive Media.
John Burn-Murdoch @jburnmurdoch
A data journalist at the FT. A City alumni and former City lecturer.
Jonathan Hewett @jonhew
Heads up the Interactive course at City University.
Joseph Lichterman @ylichterman
You’ll become familiar with Joseph’s byline. He’s a staff writer at Nieman.
Journalism Festival @journalismfest
Every year journalists from all over the world meet in Perugia, Italy to talk shop (and drink). It’s a wonderful festival and a handle worth following.
Journalism Jobs @journalismjobs
Jobs advertised on Journalism.co.uk
Journalism Tools @Journalism2ls
Tips on tools for journalists.
Journalism.co.uk @journalismnews
For news on innovations in the digital news industry (disclosure, it’s my former home)
Justin Ellis @JustinNXT
A former Nieman writer.
Kate Day @kate_day
Ex Telegraph, Kate now has a key role at Politico Europe.
Kevin Anderson @kevglobal
Media consultant who’s done time at the Guardian, BBC and Gannett.
Kristen Hare @kristenhare
Reports on the news industry for Poynter.
Kristine Lowe @KristineLowe
Kristine is a blogger and sharer of news industry tips and digital knowledge.
Liz Heron @lheron
Liz went from the New York Times to The Wall Street Journal to Facebook before back to the newsroom, taking a senior role at Huffington Post. We await her next move.
Lucia Moses @lmoses
Senior editor at Digiday.
Mark Frankel @markfrankel29
Social media editor of BBC News.
Mark Little @marklittlenews
A former TV news reporter who founded Storyful, Mark is now in a senior role at Twitter
Martin Belam @MartinBelam
Martin has taken a less travelled path into journalism, coming from the tech / UX side. He’s an experimenter who gets stuff done. He’s now social and new formats editor at the Guardian.
Mathew Ingram @mathewi
Avid media watcher and commentator.
Media Briefing @mediabrief
A news site covering the business side of journalism
Mindy McAdams @macloo
A digital journalism professor.
Nick Garnett @NickGarnettBBC
BBC reporter who has pioneered iPhone reporting, follow Nick for tips on audio and video (and news from the north of England).
Nieman Lab @NiemanLab
Essential reading for all journalists.
Online News Association @ONA
A member organisation that’s behind the key conference that’s a date in every US digital journalist’s diary.
Paul Bradshaw @paulbradshaw
Journalism lecturer, data expert and behind a number of educational e-books.
Perry Hewitt @perryhewitt
Creator of a Friday roundup of 5 links to emerging technologies and cool stuff.
Poynter @Poynter
Important reading for industry news.
Press Gazette @pressgazette
UK newspaper industry news.
Raju Narisetti @raju
One of the few exec-level folks from the news industry to have adopted Twitter and other social platforms in the early days and remained open and active. Until recently he was at News Corp. He’s now CEO of Gizmodo Media Group.
Ricardo Bilton @rbilton
Ricardo was a pleasure to read when he was writing about the media industry for Digiday. He’s now been snapped up by Nieman and brings key industry news.
Richard Sambrook @sambrook
Professor of journalism at Cardiff.
Simon Rogers @smfrogers
Simon used to run the Data Blog and data desk at the Guardian and then went to Twitter. He’s now doing data at Google.
Sree Sreenivasan @sree
Sree famously announced he was on the market and the offers came to him. He’s now chief digital officer of New York City.
Stacy-Marie Ishmael @s_m_i
Stacy is a community builder, app creator and all round enabler. She’s ex FT and behind the Buzzfeed News app.
Steve Buttry @stevebuttry
Steve’s an educator who has been generous in his sharing of training notes. This is particularly memorable.
Subhajit Banerjee @subhajitb
Subajit was the Guardian’s first mobile editor (was he the first mobile editor in the UK?). He’s now at Conde Nast.
Thomas Baekdal @baekdal
Astute media watcher.
Zach Seward @zseward
Zach is a former social media editor at The Wall Street Journal. He was one of the founding team at Quartz.
Use the starter list to power Nuzzel
The list can also be a way of ensuring you keep track of key industry news by using it in Nuzzel, a smart app (that the New York Times has invested in).
You may use Nuzzel to find news shared by the people you follow on Twitter but it can also be powered by lists. Nuzzel is one of my homescreen apps and the primary way I avoided missing key industry news when I was on maternity leave.
