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Wednesday, May 5, 2010

Twitter considered a newspaper column now?

More commentary on Catherine Deveny and the connections apparently made between social media and newspaper columns... are they now the same? Can a writer only get paid jobs after establishing an online presence for oneself via the social media sites but then forgo those rights to freedom of speech once a paid writing position is offered?

in reference to:

"her joking remarks were not in the context of her work for The Age. A personal Twitter feed, whether “public” or not, is not a newspaper column."
- Meanjin · The best of new writing in Australia · Women behaving badly? (view on Google Sidewiki)

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