My students are tweeting. That must be a good thing, right? A reporter from The (Greeley) Tribune discussed Twitter in my Advanced News and Feature Writing class last week. Jacob Rodgers, a 2009 UNC graduate with a journalism degree, covers education and tweets all the time. To follow Rodgers on Twitter, go to http://twitter.com/JakobRodgers.
Some of the students in the class are taking Rodgers' speech to heart. The school paper, The Mirror, will be tweeting live from two sporting events this week. Mitchell Woll, a student in the class, will be tweeting from UNC's wrestling match against Oklahoma Friday, and a reporter will be tweeting from tonight's men's basketball game against Montana. The sports editor, Jordan Freemyer, is also a student in my class, and he might be the reason for this leap into the Twitter universe. I haven't seen any tweets in the paper before this. You can check out the tweets at the following sites: twitter.com/mitchell_woll and twitter.com/uncmirror.
I'm glad these students are taking the initiative, and I look forward to reading the tweets. I hope more student journalists will take advantage of social media in the future. College is an opportunity to try news things and see if they work for you. Way to go, Mitchell and Jordan.
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