In Wake of AP Hack, Twitter Looks to Get Serious About Journalist Relations

Posted: 5/2/2013  |  By: Nathan Ingraham | The Verge

A huge number of journalists already use Twitter, both for news-gathering and as a way to report on breaking events, but a new job posting indicates that the company is looking to further formalize its relationships with the journalistic community. The posting for a "head of news and journalism" calls for someone to "devise and execute the strategies that make Twitter indispensable to newsrooms and journalists" — the hire will work as a sort of liaison to to the broader journalistic community.