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Can a modern tech journalist even unplug from the Internet if they wanted to? I was under the impression that most journalists have a (contractual) daily "tweet quota" that they have to meet.



Plenty of NYT journalists who don't use Twitter, particularly the ones in leadership roles. There is a social media policy but not any type of contractual quota: https://www.nytimes.com/2017/10/13/reader-center/social-medi...

- Dean Baquet (editor in chief) has just 2 tweets: https://twitter.com/deanbaquet

- James Bennet (editorial page editor) https://twitter.com/JBennet

- A.G. Sulzberger (publisher, but worked as a bureau reporter for a few years) https://twitter.com/agsnyt

2014 article about whether it mattered if NYT people knew how to use twitter: https://gigaom.com/2014/09/29/does-it-matter-that-some-new-y...


I would assume that quota could be lifted if they set about writing an article like that.




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