Same Paper - Gundy In/Gundy Out

You can't run every tweet by the SE, but I would think you would with something like this.

Wouldn't you want something to link to send traffic to your paper's site?

 

If you followed Will McAvoy's Twitter account, you'd have known she wasn't dead.

 

I agree, but shouldn't this be on Journalism topics only?

 

Forde reports it's Bret Bielema:

http://sports.yahoo.com/news/ncaaf--sources--arkansas-to-hire-bret-bielema-195732340.html

 

I'd say Forde won this round, with Wally Hall a distant second.

 

On the other hand, the newspaper doesn't get a lick of traffic if you don't link to a story and get readers to bite.

If you are not linking to content on the website, Twitter is really only good for building the brand of the reporters and columnists.

 

Right. One thing our social media editors stress is teaser-style tweets. You need to get people to click the links.

 

This is an instance where Twitter is a joke. I'll wait till the press conference and then we'll know the real truth.

 

Amen and amen! What credibility do you have when 8 out of 10 things you say turn out not to be true?

 

Yeah. Sure, Hall technically had it right, but the "it" was who wasn't getting the job.

I'd rather have Forde who gets name of the actual coach a couple of hours later. That's the news.

How badly does it reflect on the local newspaper guys, to have a Yahoo! national guy (though one with much respect and great sources) swoop in and break the story on their home turf while they are Tweeting about who isn't getting the job?