Mediagazer: Twitter is essential for journalists - but they still rely on the PR machine (Roy Greenslade/Guardian)

1:15 PM ET, May 19, 2011

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Nick Bilton / Bits:

This Is Your Brain on Twitter — Updated Adding response from Bill Keller at the end. — In his latest column for The New York Times Magazine, Bill Keller, The Times's executive editor, likens clearing the way for his 13-year-old daughter to join Facebook to handing her “a pipe of crystal meth.”

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Adweek:

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Don Babwin / Associated Press:

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Reuters:

Bill Keller's blind spots — Bill Keller, who proposes that Twitter makes you stupid and says that allowing a 13-year-old onto Facebook is like passing her a pipe of crystal meth, has responded to my last post about him in an email to Steve Myers: … Keller's latest column …

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Steve Myers / Poynter:
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Hillary Chabot / Boston Herald:

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James Robinson / Guardian:

Daily Mirror takes on journalist adviser — Former National Enquirer executive assisting Richard Wallace — The Daily Mirror has drafted in a former journalist at the Mail on Sunday and National Enquirer to advise on the workings of its editorial operations.

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Roy Greenslade / Guardian:

Twitter is essential for journalists - but they still rely on the PR machine — A distinguished freelance journalist whose work I admire told me the other day that she is “not on Twitter” adding: “I don't see the point.” — We were in a radio studio at the time, so I didn't get the chance to explain why …

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Jeff Bercovici / Mixed Media:

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John Eggerton / Broadcasting & Cable:

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