What if you could get tomorrow’s newspaper today?
Now you sorta can, by tracking the short messages on Twitter written by the journalists who do the muckraking for major media outlets.
Muck Rack makes it easy to follow one line, real time reporting.
If you are a journalist on Twitter or know of anyone not yet included in Muck Rack, please let us know.
Muck Rack is simple. It’s like a digital Rolodex, streaming journalists’ Twitter
feeds onto one site. Some post snippets of their stories or links to what they’ve been writing about. Others clearly don’t strive to keep a professional Twitter account. But that’s the beauty of it.
Clicking through pages of links and stories isn’t what keeps people coming back. I’m sure it has to be that sense of community that even I felt when I went to the site. It’s nice to feel like you have something in common with someone, even if they are across the world.
Journalists can be added to Muck Rack. All you have to do is fill out a form with the name of the reporter, his or her organization and title and your contact information. Pretty handy. And a pretty cool example of a social network for journalists — not just a place we’re barging into.
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