Author: Jaclyn Schiff

Jaclyn Schiff is a professional journalist and media consultant based in Washington, D.C.
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Tweeting About Being Fired From the New Yorker; Why Journalists Should Take Charge of Their Personal Brand

All in all, last Friday was probably a good day for Dan Baum.

The former New Yorker staff writer’s decision to use Twitter to chronicle his unwilling exit from the magazine in 2007 has generated quite a bit of buzz and attracted a few hundred followers to his account.

At 1:46pm on May 8, Baum …