Categories: OLD Media Moves

WSJ social media editor tells reporters to tweet about their beat

The real reason reporters are followed on Twitter is for their expertise and their added perspective of the their beat, says Liz Heron, director of social media at The Wall Street Journal, in this interview with Beet.TV.

Chris Roush

Chris Roush was the dean of the School of Communications at Quinnipiac University in Hamden, Connecticut. He was previously Walter E. Hussman Sr. Distinguished Professor in business journalism at UNC-Chapel Hill. He is a former business journalist for Bloomberg News, Businessweek, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, The Tampa Tribune and the Sarasota Herald-Tribune. He is the author of the leading business reporting textbook "Show me the Money: Writing Business and Economics Stories for Mass Communication" and "Thinking Things Over," a biography of former Wall Street Journal editor Vermont Royster.