Media Thinkers
Jennifer Preston
Staff writer @nytimes. Interested in stories about use of technology, social media in politics, government - and real life. Tips? jepresto@nytimes.com58,957 followers | Follow
danah boyd
social media scholar, youth researcher & advocate | Microsoft Research, Harvard Berkman Center | zephoria@zephoria.org58,894 followers | Follow
Jennifer 8. Lee
Journalist, writer. Awesome Food trustee. Hacks/Hackers organizer. Dreaming of the future of media: The story continues. jenny@jennifer8lee.com.32,623 followers | Follow
Linda Thomas
I'm a broadcast and online journalist in Seattle, anchoring the morning news on 97.3 KIRO FM19,195 followers | Follow
Rebecca MacKinnon
Writer, Internet freedom activist. Forthcoming book - Consent of the Networked: The Worldwide Struggle for Internet Freedom. Jan. 2012, Basic Books.17,882 followers | Follow
Lydia Polgreen
New York Times Johannesburg Bureau Chief. I also tweet a lot about India. Links not endorsements, views are personal. polgreen@nytimes.com12,356 followers | Follow
Meg Pickard
Guardian Head of Digital Engagement + longtime geek. Perpetually curious about online culture + communicating/collaborating/storytelling. Opinions mine. YMMV.10,183 followers | Follow
Shirley Brady
Journalist, Glasgow girl, mom, muse. Catch me over @brandchannelhub or chasing a pink scooter. All opinions are my own - or @badbanana's6,998 followers | Follow
Maryn McKenna
Author of SUPERBUG & BEATING BACK THE DEVIL. Wired blogger, SciAm columnist, magazine writer. Public health, global health, food policy. Also @MRSA_blog.6,841 followers | Follow
Kathy E Gill
Digital media educator at UofWA, study social media space; write @ TheModerateVoice, newsvine; transplanted Southerner; teach newbies to ride motorcycles!5,866 followers | Follow
Suzanne Yada
Web producer for @CIRonline and @CaliforniaWatch • syada@cironline.org • RT ≠ endorse • Will show you where to look among the garbage and the flowers •4,894 followers | Follow
Angela Connor
Author of '18 Rules of Community Engagement.' VP, Director of Social Media at Capstrat, News Veteran, Journalist, Speaker, Online Community Enthusiast4,323 followers | Follow
Amanda Michel
Open Editor, Guardian US. Former lives at ProPublica, Huffington Post. Co-founder of SparkCamp. Jewelry, food & art adventures. NYC.4,234 followers | Follow
Carrie Brown-Smith
U. of Memphis journalism professor, Teen Appeal (city-wide high school newspaper) director, do research on organizational change in newsrooms and social media.3,665 followers | Follow
Lisa Williams
CEO & Founder of Placeblogger, MIT Media Lab fellow, into the future of news. My learning-to-code blog: http://lifeandcode.tumblr.com .3,496 followers | Follow
Ellyn Angelotti
Faculty @Poynter by day; part-time 3L @StetsonLaw in my free time. I teach & research innovations in journalism. I also bleed crimson & blue. #rockchalk3,486 followers | Follow
Amanda Zamora
national digital editor at @washingtonpost @postpolitics. Also a foodie, wanderer and big fan of the parenthetical. Email amanda.zamora[at]wpost.com2,811 followers | Follow
Jessica Clark
Jessica Clark tracks public media reinvention and innovation here; see http://beyond-broadcast.tumblr.com for more background and longer thoughts.2,770 followers | Follow
Mathilde Piard
Cox Media Group social media mgr (radio tv papers) but tweets = mine. Fmr multimedia storyteller. Dev & startup groupie. Bike & tri newbie. Tea lover. Frenchie.2,739 followers | Follow
Charlotte-Anne Lucas
Journalist, teacher, publisher + chief online instigator at NOWCastSA.com. My Twitter 101: http://bit.ly/13DzZk2,730 followers | Follow
Erica Smith
Journalist, researcher, social media junkie, 'Twitter sweetheart.' I eat M&Ms in Roy G. Biv order. (Post-Dispatch social media editor; these tweets are mine.)2,721 followers | Follow
ljthornton
Journalism professor: evolving newsrooms & reports; new media practice & consequences. @ Cronkite School, Arizona State University http://lj365days.tumblr.com2,596 followers | Follow
Amy O'Leary
Reporter for The New York Times. Former editor/multimedia/radio producer. Tweets are eclectic: reporting fragments & digital journalism ideas/methods.2,489 followers | Follow
Michele Mclellan
Journalist, Knight Circuit Rider, founder of Block by Block: Community News Summit, KDMC @USC blogger, traveler, Cambodia lover2,349 followers | Follow
Rachel Nixon
Director of Digital Media for CBC News, ex-editor for NowPublic and BBCNews.com. Online journalism lifer.2,285 followers | Follow
Christine Gorman
Health/Medicine editor at Scientific American. NYU adjunct on press ethics. Other: global health, learning networks, nursing, theology. All views are my own.2,264 followers | Follow
Kim Pearson
My current research is founded on the premise that democracy requires the broad participation of a computationally fluent citizenry.2,240 followers | Follow
Susan Crowell
Editor of weekly newspaper, @farmanddairy. Old dog learning new tricks. Kent St. alum. Adviser to @GroverCollegian. http://gplus.to/susancrowell2,057 followers | Follow
Leah Betancourt
journalist. new media content director. writer. blogger. posts on @mashable, @poynter. focus: new media, social media, emerging media & community engagement.1,891 followers | Follow
Elaine Helm Norton
Digital media geek and news junkie. Works in PR at @wsseattle. Rollergirl with @JCRG_Derby.1,873 followers | Follow
Regina McCombs
Multimedia faculty, The Poynter Institute, thinking about multimedia, social and mobile things. Recovering Minnesotan.1,740 followers | Follow
Meredith Artley
Managing Editor, CNN Digital. Boards of @ONA, @GlobalEditorsNetwork. I don't do breaking news here. Priors include @nytimes, @latimes, IHT/Paris wine lunches.1,611 followers | Follow
Emily Ingram
Human behind @postlocal. Web producer for @washingtonpost. Nebraskan at heart. RTs≠endorsements.1,586 followers | Follow
Kat Powers
Learning all about the Red Cross in Eastern Massachusetts. Recovering journalist. Seeking enlightenment and serendipity.1,278 followers | Follow
Madeline Earp
Research press freedom in Asia - Afghanistan to Australia - for CPJ. Also British.1,102 followers | Follow
Megan Taylor
Web dev, journalist, data junkie, bibliophile, Flyers fan, hack-n-slasher, scifi geek, kitteh servant, working at JNF.1,092 followers | Follow
Serena Carpenter
I am a newer media prof at Ariz. State. I teach social media, comm. tech, & comm. theory. I conduct research in the areas of media sociology and newer media.1,002 followers | Follow
Stephanie Romanski
Web/Social Media editor for TheIndependent.com, an Omaha World-Herald newspaper.900 followers | Follow
katie ratcliffe
news director for AFPBB News, visual j, social media, writing/photography, skiing, love mac/food/books/TV; ex-Hong Kong. (on Twitter, I speak only for myself)848 followers | Follow
Mary McGuire
I teach multimedia and broadcast journalism in Ottawa, at Carleton University799 followers | Follow
Visual Journalism
a community-powered crowd-funded open source creative commons project621 followers | Follow
Cyndy Green
Lifelong news videot, shooter, editor, videojournalist, writer, seer, teacher47 followers | Follow
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