Steve Zorowitz: Reporters for sure, but we also need the breaking news desks.

journalists are (one of) the backbones of social media — having a space for breaking news and real-time communication is incredibly crucial for crises, information dissemination, and more and sure, political discourse can come along with "scrutiny and negativity," but what isn't political

Direct from Mosseri: they DON’T want to encourage politics and hard news posting on Threads, and the “scrutiny, negativity…or integrity risks that come along with them.”

How do we get more journalists here?

we've been reaching out to & been in contact with a bunch of newsrooms (including local news) but if you have personal contacts at news orgs, please have them email [email protected]!

You're serious about getting reporters here, right? Because there are a whole bunch who I can reach out to. I've been using some of the invites I have gotten access to for that anyway. To be clear, I'm talking credible people, obviously.

Reporters for sure, but we also need the breaking news desks.

Buddy, you don't know me. But, a lot of reporters do. Gimme a chance, Ok? Lol.

The Breaking News Desk? Hildy, get me rewrite! Seriously. Newspapers have social media managers like everyone else.

Speaking as a journalist who became former just a few years ago, I can tell you the social media managers get their info from the news desk(s).

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