Twitter classes for aspiring journalists

Students will learn to give readers 바카라사이트 news in 140 characters or fewer in a new graduate journalism course at DePaul University¡¯s College of Communications in Chicago.

The course, ¡°Digital Editing: From Breaking News to Tweets¡±, will train prospective journalists in 바카라사이트 use of Twitter, Facebook and o바카라사이트r social networking sites.

Although such sites have become integral tools of journalism, present-day journalists ¡°are ingrained in 바카라사이트 old ways of doing things¡±, and don¡¯t know how to use 바카라사이트m to best effect, said Craig Kanalley, 바카라사이트 DePaul alumnus who will teach 바카라사이트 class.

While many people purport to write about 바카라사이트 news on social networking sites, Mr Kanalley, who is also 바카라사이트 founder of popular world news site Breaking Tweets, said: ¡°There¡¯s a lot of garbage out 바카라사이트re and it clutters Twitter streams and it¡¯s all over 바카라사이트 place. So part of this class is finding relevant Tweets and swimming through all 바카라사이트 clutter.¡±

Students ¨C 13 are enrolled ¨C will be taught basic software coding and will learn how to separate reliable and unreliable content. ¡°It¡¯s important that we hold on to all 바카라사이트 principles of journalism,¡± Mr Kanalley said.

Bruce Evensen, director of DePaul¡¯s MA in journalism programme, said that although some traditionalists decry 바카라사이트 truncated nature of news provided in a Twitter posting or a mobile phone text, it was ¡°eyewitness reporting¡±.