Journalists to follow on Twitter

Now wait. Before you go follow a slew of people, do yourself a favor and make sure you do these three things:

Have a picture of you as your Twitter avatar
Fill out your bio with information that actually describes you
Type a few tweets so the people you follow can get a sense of who you are

Also, I’ve linked to most everyone’s main blog pages, so you can add their RSS feeds to your Google Reader.

A disclaimer

This list includes just a small fraction of the journalists I follow on Twitter. I’ve been adding to this list for weeks now, but I just couldn’t keep up lately with adding all the new journalists I’ve found to follow.

Besides, Twitter is all about constructing your own community. Mine includes the following people, but maybe yours won’t. Follow who you please. These are just some of my suggestions.

Students to follow

• Greg Linch (@greglinch) – University of Miami student, CoPress (@copress) community manager
• Joey Baker (@joeybaker) – Syracuse University student, CoPress business manager
• Daniel Bachhuber (@danielbachhuber) – University of Oregon student, CoPress executive director
• Lauren Rabiano (@laurenmichell and @cicmintern) – Cal Poly student, Center for Innovation in College Media intern
• Suzanne Yada (@suzanneyada) – San Jose State student
• Adam Hemphill (@ahemphill) – Eastern Connecticut State student, CoPress operations director
  
• Craig Kanalley (@ckanal) – DePaul grad student, founder of Breaking Tweets (@breakingtweets)
• Anthony Pesce (@anthonyjpesce) – UCLA student, director of Populous Project
• Andrew Dunn (@andrew_dunn) – University of North Carolina student
• Emily Kostic (@emilykostic) – Rowan University student, CoPress editorial associate
• Ben LaMothe (@benlamothe) – American in the UK, student at City University London
• Miles Skorpen (@mskorpe1) – Swathmore student, CoPress hosting director
• Sarah Wood (@hidama) – Coe College student
  

Professors to follow

• Sue Burzynski Bullard (@suebb) – UNL professor
• Rick Alloway (@ralloway) – UNL professor
• Barney McCoy (@barneymccoy) – UNL professor (See the trend yet?)
• Will Norton (@wnorton1) – Dean of UNL journalism college
• Mindy McAdams (@macloo) – Teaching Online Journalism blogger
• Carrie Brown (@brizzyc) – University of Memphis professor
• Jay Rosen (@jayrosen_nyu) -NYU professor and Press Think blogger
• Jeff Jarvis (@jeffjarvis) – CUNY professor, Buzzmachine blogger and author of What Would Google Do?

Journalists to follow

• Patrick Thornton (@jiconoclast) – Editor of Beatblogging.org
  
• David Cohn (@digidave) – Journalist turned entrepreneur, founder of Spot.Us
• Daniel Victor (@bydanielvictor) – Reporter for The Patriot-News who does superb job of engaging with community he covers: Exhibit A.
  
• Mark Briggs (@markbriggs) – Journalism 2.0 blogger and author
• Chrys Wu (@macdivaONA) – Washington Post Digital editorial strategist and Richocet blogger
• Andy Dickinson (@digidickinson) – Journalism professor over in the UK
• Patrick Beeson (@patrickbeeson) – Content manager for E.W. Scripps Interactive Newspaper Group
• Amy Gahran (@agahran) – Media consultant whose name might be familiar from Poynter’s E-Media Tidbits column
• Steve Outing (@steveouting) – A “thought leader” in online journalism
• Will Sullivan (@journerdism) – All sorts of industry links from the interactive director at the St. Louis Post-Dispatch
• Kevin Sablan (@ksablan) – Blogger on AlmightyLink.com and leader of the Orange County Register’s web task force.
• Chris Krewson (@ckrewson) – Executive editor of online/news at The Philadelphia Inquirer
• 10,000 Words (@10000words) – A blog by Mark S. Luckie about where journalism and technology meet
• Amy Webb (@webbmedia) – All about adapting technology for journalism

Start-ups/Misc. to follow

• Spot.Us (@spotus) – San Francisco-based nonprofit and Knight Foundation grant winner focused on community-funded reporting
• Poynter (@poynter) – St. Petersburg, Fla.-based school for journalists
• Center for Innovation in College Media (@cicm) – CICM’s Bryan Murley, a professor at Eastern Illinois University, is behind this account
• Nieman Journalism Lab (@niemanlab) – Harvard-based group focusing on finding way to make quality journalism thrive in an Internet age
• American Copy Editors Society (@copyeditors) – Grammar geeks: Don’tcha love ‘em?