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  • Featured journalist : Charlie Warzel

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    Today’s featured journalist is Charlie Warzel, deputy editor of FWD at BuzzFeed. He’s also at AdWeek writing about digital politics, the future of journalism, and online publishing (the digital media beat is really a give at this point).

    Warzel’s portfolio includes, “The 140-Character-or-Less Campaign,” “Overdosing on HuffPost Live,” and “Are Table-Only Publications Dead?”

    Over the weekend, he had a brilliant idea: “what if we just shut down twitter on the weekends…”

    Do you want to be featured? Set up your own own journalist portfolio and then let us know through delia at muckrack dot com.

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  • Featured journalist: Chris Brennan

    Today’s featured journalist is Chris Brennan, senior writer at the Philadelphia Daily News.

     

    His portfolio includes, “CLOUT’S A-to-Z guide to the Republican National Convention” while his twitter quote reads: “Squirm: Now is not the time for squirming, unless of course some angry guy on TV says we should squirm if we really love America.”


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  • Featured journalist: Danny Sullivan

    Today’s featured Muck Racker is Danny Sullivan, founding editor at SearchEngineLand.com.

    He covers Google, Facebook, Twitter, SEO, SEM, and all things digital marketing, search marketing and search. Since he started covering search engines in late 1995, we believe the man knows what he’s doing. 

    To prove it, Sullivan’s been quoted everywhere from the Wall Street Journal, USA Today, The Los Angeles Times, Forbes, The New Yorker and Newsweek, and even on ABC’s Nightline.

    The Orange County resident became a journalist because “I like to know about things, I’m very curious, and journalists have permission to ask and a job of explaining.” He’d appreciate it if you pitched him in the morning.

    Do you want to be featured? Set up your own own journalist portfolio and then let us know through delia at muckrack dot com.

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    Today’s featured journalist is Alex Murashko, church and ministry section editor with the Christian Post.

    His portfolio includes, “Greg Laurie: People in Heaven Know What’s Happening on Earth,” “‘Obama’s America 2016’ Movie: If Obama Wins a Second Term, Where Will We Be?,” and “Gay Agenda in Campaign Against Chick-fil-A Not About Civil Rights?” 

    Do you want to be featured? Set up your own own journalist portfolio and then let us know through delia at muckrack dot com.

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  • Featured journalist: Anna Tarkov

    Today’s featured journalist is Anna Tarkov, a reporter with Pioneer Press Chicago. She calls herself a “journalism free agent with no salary cap.”

    Tarkov is often frustrated, always cynical, and thinks about media A LOT. It makes sense since she covers everything from digital and social media, journalisms both citizen and interactive, as well as politics and Chicago.  

    Her portfolio includes: “Journalism needs pollinators,” “Patch by the numbers,” and “Journatic worker takes ‘This American Life’ inside outsourced journalism.”

    Based in Chicago, Tarkov believes a journalist is a professional explainer. As such, she’s always interested in being followed by people who may be impressed by what she does and, subsequently, hiring her to write for their publication. So go ahead and get in touch right over here.

    Do you want to be featured? Set up your own own journalist portfolio and then let us know with delia at muckrack dot com.


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  • A gif to win them all, and more from the fifth annual Shorty Awards Honor

    For the last five years, the Shorty Awards has honored the best of the 140 character set and Monday night was no exception. The internet’s elite came out in full force to TimesCenter and in part since Shorty-owner Sawhorse Media is also our parent company, Muck Rack joined the annual party that turns the generally staid venue into one of the biggest parties of the social media season.

    The theater upstairs kicked off the party with host Felicia Day and a video message from NYC Mayor Michael Bloomberg, himself a former Shorty winner (in Foursquare mayorship, no less).

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    Tim Pool took home the Shorty for Top Journalist on Social Media, presented by Muck Rack, and talked about covering protests with Sree right here. “All I use is social media - it’s the only thing I do.” he said. Pool got his start covering Occupy Wall Street and while he doesn’t consider himself a freelancer because “everything I do goes straight to Twitter,” he does have recommendations for anyone interested in modern reporting: “Get on Twitter. It’s such a great newswire…just start doing something journalistic.”

    For their work in social, CNN won Best Use of Social Media for News. CNN Political Director Mark Preston accepted the award:

    But the real winner of the night was the gif (guess the OED was right). Michelle Obama’s Let’s Move! campaign received the #GIFStar Special Shorty Award. Best Use of Animated GIFs went to Wilson Sporting Goods Co. for Where Football is Born. The #GIF Maker award was a tie between T. Kyle MacMahon of MTV Networks and BuzzFeed’s Ryan Broderick. “Kiss Me in Paris,” a creation by fashion favorites Jamie Beck and Kevin Burg for Ann Street Studio, won Animated GIF presented by A&E Duck Dynasty. And in some of the most exciting news, the night also featured a GIF became the world’s largest, as determined by RecordSetter. Congratulations to Yiying Lu for making the Shorty whale and Lee Semel for designing the GIF that featured it.

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    It was such a big deal that Sawhorse Media CEO and Shorty Awards co-creator Gregory Galant (also our boss) said in the official press release: “I can’t believe we’re still sending press releases. Why don’t we just announce all of this with a GIF?”

    If you joined us Monday night, find yourself and your friends (likely together) among the hundreds of snapshots in our Flickr page. If you’re looking for a specific acceptance speech or any of the amazing video teasers throughout the night, our YouTube channel has them all. And if you have 90 minutes to kill, catch the entire show on-demand here.

    The whole night was so exciting, we just can’t wait to see what goes down next year. Until then, here’s another gif of past winner winner Epic Meal Time properly accepting their Shorty.

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