Sarah Larson, When Lois Lane Met Twitter

Social media is being hailed as a game-changer in nearly every industry, including the news business. So what happens when a veteran journalist adds this new tool to her arsenal? She discovers it is so much more than a distribution channel. It can change the kinds of stories journalists tell and how they tell them.

Bio

Sarah Larson started her journalism career in 1995, when she landed her first gig as a stringer covering the council meetings of two tiny towns about 30 minutes outside her Illinois hometown.  She thought she was the luckiest girl in the world. From night cops to county government, she progressed through five beats and various editorships at two newspapers and loved nearly every minute of it. She left the newspaper world in 2008, and had no plans to return.

But journalism in its new forms sucked her back in. Today, she is the editor of DoylestownPatch, a news and information resource for the greater Doylestown area published completely online. Doylestown.Patch.com launched on Nov. 11, 2010.
Sarah likes telling stories, reading books, taking photographs, scrapbooking, traveling, drinking red wine and eating Dove chocolate. Not necessarily in that order.

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