Our Feckless Fealty to Twitter

I took a day off this past work week from my reporting duties to wear my hat as the JURIST journalist-in-residence on the campus of the University of Pittsburgh School of Law.

JURIST is an award-winning online legal news service powered by a global team of over 100 law student reporters, editors, commentators, correspondents and content developers from 50 law schools in 24 countries across six continents. They do amazing work, on par with many professional media outlets, and I urge you to check out their reporting.

I am the only non-lawyer or non-Ph.D. that has been asked to be the JURIST journalist-in-residence. What I lack in credentials I try to make up by passing on lessons learned in the school of hard knocks, including my experiences over the past 15 years on social media.

I told the JURIST team that my news organization, the Voice of America, does not permit me to opine and any attempt at humor online would likely be too subtle for my intended overseas audiences, composed of non-native speakers of English, thus I try to stick to the facts while providing a bit of color and context.

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