by Neal Mann
Since I started at Sky News in 2009, I've worked as a field producer and deputy news editor on a wide range of national and international stories. Both roles need all of the traditional journalism skills: the ability to stand up and break stories, to hit the phones, knock on doors and talk to people. However, as time has gone on, working as a journalist has meant adapting to and dealing with the emergence of the 'new media', and in particular social media. When I trained as a journalist, my use of social media was limited to posting the odd (stone cold sober) picture of a night out on Facebook; Twitter wasn't even on my radar. Five years later and things have changed substantially. Twitter has become a core part of my work (and my Facebook privacy settings are now much, much higher)...[continued]
