August 7, 2013

Cleveland Scene

The newspaper hadn’t claimed the @PlainDealer Twitter handle, so Cleveland Scene did, Vince Grzegorek writes. “Yes, a digital-first company somehow lost the account of its namesake print product on Twitter.”

The Scene “wouldn’t want it falling into the hands of anyone who would do nasty stuff with it,” Grzegorek writes.

 

The Plain Dealer newspaper tweets as @ThePlainDealer. Its Web home, Cleveland.com, tweets as @clevelanddotcom.

On a related note, Digital First Media CEO John Paton recently told USA Today Media Editor and Columnist Rem Rieder his company owns the URL longbeachregister.com. A new edition of the Orange County Register called the Long Beach Register is challenging the DFM-managed Press-Telegram in the California town.

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