Should All Journalists Be on Twitter?

By: Ann Friedman | CJR

Last month a piece in BuzzFeed mocked New York Times’ staffers resistance to using Twitter. “[T]he company,” Charlie Warzel wrote, “has struggled getting all of its staffers on board with ‘new media.’”

The observation made a large enough splash—mainly on Twitter—that when journalism blogger Steve Buttry called out Dean Baquet for being a prominent example of of the Gray Lady’s “Twitter Graveyard” (the Times executive editor has tweeted just twice), Baquet responded.