There were a lot of great posts on twitter, It seems like a great site for journalism students to practice their skills as well as just keeping in touch with friends. The first twitter that caught my eye was Mike McGregor's page which I found to be concise and well written. Another page I found to be well done was Melissa Hales. She kept is short and sweet but still incorporated all of the pertinent information. The third twitter account I thought was great was Christina Gunther’s. I found her site to have the best facts tucked into the lead and short reports.
All in all I think twitter is a great tool for learning to write leads and short reports because of its character limit on each post. The posts I highlighted represent good news writing to me because they did the most with the space they had, there is no room for wasted words on lead writing.
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