In the latest of our Q&As we talk to Ruth Barnett, social media correspondent for Sky News – who this week begins a new political role for the organisation’s Westminster bureau. She joined the broadcaster in 2007 as a multimedia producer and was appointed as Twitter correspondent in March 2009, before taking on her most recent role last month. Ruth has pioneered Sky’s real-time coverage of live events and uses Twitter and social media to track news stories, find sources and feed into her work for Sky News online, on …

With just over a week to go until news:rewired, one of our multimedia speakers, Justin Kings, is helping us get ready with a day of tweeted tips. We’ll be posting them on this blog, and re-tweeting them via @newsrewired. They’ll originally go out from @newsleader from 9.30 am tomorrow (Wednesday 6 January) and will be tagged #newsrw. So if you need some social media and broadcasting inspiration start following him – and us – now. Read more about Justin at this link…

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“We may be approaching what Malcolm Gladwell termed a tipping point as far as media technology goes, a point where the focus of debate moves from the medium to the message,” writes Martin Cloake.

In our latest speaker Q&A we ask Jessica Reed, editorial assistant for the Guardian’s Comment is Free site, about her job and what it involves. Prior to joining the Guardian she worked as a participation editor for non-profit human rights and democracy news site openDemocracy, where she was responsible for contributing blogs and bloggers. At news:rewired Jessica will be talking about her experiences of handling user comments and contributions for Comment is Free and managing online communities.
So what exactly do you do for the Guardian?
Editorial assistant, blogger and Twitter contact …