Jesse Holcomb of PEJ, Kim Gross of George Washington University and Amy Mitchell of PEJ
For nearly every news organization, Twitter has become a regular part of the daily news outreach. But there are questions about how those organizations actually use the technology: How often do they tweet? What kind of news do they distribute? To what extent is Twitter used as a new reporting tool or as a mechanism for gathering insights from followers?
To answer some of these questions, the Pew Research Center’s Project for Excellence in Journalism and The George Washington University’s School of Media and Public Affairs collaborated on a study of Twitter feeds from 13 major news organizations.
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Journalists and news outlets on Twitter ranked according to Portland’s ‘Newstweet Index’ for the third quarter of 2011.
Top 50 media tweeters
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Twitter name
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Real name
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Job
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Organisation
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|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fieldproducer | Neal Mann | digital news editor | Sky News |
| 2 | mediaguardian | MediaGuardian.co.uk | The Guardian | |
| 3 | arusbridger | Alan Rusbridger | editor, the Guardian; editor-in-chief, Guardian News & Media | The Guardian |
| 4 | afneil | Andrew Neil | presenter, BBC1 This Week; presenter, BBC2 Daily Politics; chairman, Spectator Magazines; chairman, ITP Magazines (Dubai); chairman, World Media Rights (London) | BBC |
| 5 | guardiannews | Guardian News Feed | The Guardian | |
| 6 | bengoldacre | Ben Goldacre | author, Bad Science column | The Guardian |
| 7 | bbc5live | BBC Radio 5 Live | BBC | |
| 8 | charlesarthur | Charles Arthur | technology editor | The Guardian |
| 9 | paulmasonnews | Paul Mason | Newsnight economics editor | BBC |
| 10 | gracedent | Grace Dent | columnist | The Guardian |
| 11 | faisalislam | Faisal Islam | economics editor | Channel 4 News |
| 12 | krishgm | Krishnan Guru-Murthy | news presenter | Channel 4 News |
| 13 | ruskin147 | Rory Cellan-Jones | technology correspondent | BBC |
| 14 | suttonnick | Nick Sutton | editor of BBC Radio 4′s The World at One, The World This Weekend and What The Papers Say | BBC |
| 15 | iankatz1000 | Ian Katz | deputy editor | The Guardian |
| 16 | commentisfree | Jessica Reed | assistant editor, Comment is Free | The Guardian |
| 17 | bglendenning | Barry Glendenning | deputy sports editor | The Guardian |
| 18 | xtophercook | Chris Cook | education correspondent | Financial Times |
| 19 | tim | Tim Bradshaw | digital media correspondent | Financial Times |
| 20 | archiebland | Archie Bland | foreign editor | Independent |
| 21 | guardiantech | Guardian Tech Feed | The Guardian | |
| 22 | jemimakiss | Jemima Kiss | media reporter | The Guardian |
| 23 | estheraddley | Esther Addley | senior news writer | The Guardian |
| 24 | inglesi | Piers Scholfield | BBC World Service journalist | BBC |
| 25 | holysmoke | Damian Thompson | editor, Telegraph blogs | Daily Telegraph |
| 26 | henrywinter | Henry Winter | Daily Telegraph football correspondent and columnist for the Sunday Telegraph | Daily Telegraph, Sunday Telegraph |
| 27 | tobyharnden | Toby Harnden | US editor | Daily Telegraph |
| 28 | hwallop | Harry Wallop | retail editor | Daily Telegraph |
| 29 | skymarkwhite | Mark White | home affairs correspondent | Sky News |
| 30 | richardpbacon | Richard Bacon | Radio 5 Live presenter | BBC |
| 31 | pollycurtis | Polly Curtis | Whitehall correspondent | The Guardian |
| 32 | jackschofield | Jack Schofield | author, Ask Jack column | The Guardian |
| 33 | alextomo | Alex Thomson | chief correspondent and presenter | Channel 4 News |
| 34 | jonswaine | Jon Swaine | New York correspondent | Daily Telegraph |
| 35 | michaelsavage | Michael Savage | political staff | The Times |
| 36 | jamescrabtree | James Crabtree | comment page editor | Financial Times |
| 37 | j_freedland | Jonathan Freedland | columnist for the Guardian, presenter of BBC R4′s The Long View | BBC and the Guardian |
| 38 | janinegibson | Janine Gibson | editor-in-chief, Guardian US | The Guardian |
| 39 | amolrajan | Amol Rajan | columnist | The Independent |
| 40 | benfenton | Ben Fenton | media correspondent | Financial Times |
| 41 | lindseyhilsum | Lindsey Hilsum | international editor | Channel 4 News |
| 42 | johannhari101 | Johann Hari | journalist | The Independent |
| 43 | kate_day | Kate Day | social media and engagement editor | Daily Telegraph |
| 44 | shanerichmond | Shane Richmond | head of technology | Daily Telegraph |
| 45 | bryony_gordon | Bryony Gordon | columnist | Daily Telegraph |
| 46 | edwestonline | Ed West | journalist | Daily Telegraph |
| 47 | darshnasoni | Darsha Soni | Midlands correspondent | Channel 4 News |
| 48 | niallpaterson | Niall Paterson | defence correspondent | Sky News |
| 49 | christopherhope | Christopher Hope | Whitehall editor | Daily Telegraph |
| 50 | megpickard | Meg Pickard | head of digital engagement | The Guardian |
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The stories behind the iconic images of the Arab uprisings as told by those who filmed them.
“The people of Tunisia created their own media tools with their mobile phones and small cameras. They succeeded in publicising their cause and tragedy to the entire world. Those amateur images became like a
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“I think today the world is asking for a real alternative. Would you like to live in a world where the only alternative is either anglo-saxon neoliberalism or Chinese-Singaporean capitalism with Asian values?
I claim if we do nothing we will gradually approach a kind of a new type of authoritarian
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an interesting article that applies social network analysis to ownership data.

The Zurich team can. From Orbis 2007, a database listing 37 million companies and investors worldwide, they pulled out all 43,060 TNCs and the share ownerships linking them. Then they constructed a model of which companies controlled others through shareholding networks, coupled with each company’s operating revenues, to map the structure of economic power.
The work, to be published in PLoS One, revealed a core of 1318 companies with interlocking ownerships (see image). Each of the 1318 had ties to two or more other companies, and on average they were connected to 20. What’s more, although they represented 20 per cent of global operating revenues, the 1318 appeared to collectively own through their shares the majority of the world’s large blue chip and manufacturing firms – the “real” economy – representing a further 60 per cent of global revenues.
When the team further untangled the web of ownership, it found much of it tracked back to a “super-entity” of 147 even more tightly knit companies – all of their ownership was held by other members of the super-entity – that controlled 40 per cent of the total wealth in the network. “In effect, less than 1 per cent of the companies were able to control 40 per cent of the entire network,” says Glattfelder. Most were financial institutions. The top 20 included Barclays Bank, JPMorgan Chase & Co, and The Goldman Sachs Group.
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