Tag Archives: social media

Revealing their sources

Yesterday, Twitter was awash with people sharing the links to this girl, who apparently quit her job through the medium of emailed photos of messages written on a whiteboard. In them, she berates her boss for his bad breath; sexual harassment and playing endless games of Farmville when he should have been working.
The story spread […]

As the BBC waves goodbye, 6 Music says hello… to more listeners

The British have always loved an underdog. Since more often than not this has been a description of our island nation itself, it is a sentiment that runs deep in many. So it was no surprise that the big old BBC is currently coming under heavy fire for picking on the runt of its radio […]

Everyone’s a-Twitter

Alongside the people you’d expect to find working for a large news organisation – the crime writers, and the defence correspondents – there is a little corner of the offices at Sky News where the Twitter correspondent lives. As yet, she’s the only one of her kind.
@ruthbarnett spends her time scouring Twitter, along with the […]

Supporting Social Media

Rupert Murdoch declared this week that the “current days of the internet will soon be over”.
In his opinion, making newspaper content free online is a “malfunctioning” model – and, in financial terms, he’s probably right.
However, as the Comment is Free section on the Guardian site explores, even if papers do move to a paid-for format, […]

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