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# Twitter's head of news out after a year
- URL: https://onemanandhisblog.com/2014/10/twitters_head_of_news_out_after_a_year/
- Published: 2014-10-09T09:45:51.000Z
- Updated: 2015-04-08T16:22:58.000Z
- Author: Adam Tinworth
- Tags: Journalists, Social Media, X (Twitter)

[Twitter’s head of news Vivian Schiller is stepping down](http://recode.net/2014/10/08/twitter-news-head-vivian-schiller-out/?ref=onemanandhisblog.com):

> Vivian Schiller, the high-profile NBC and NPR exec whom Twitter hired to run its news unit, is leaving the company as part of a consolidation. Adam Sharp will now be in charge of both news and government at the social messaging company, as part of a larger consolidation across the media division by its new head Katie Jacobs Stanton.

Here’s Schiller’s own tweet about it:

> 1/3 Stepping down from Twitter so new global media lead [@katies](https://twitter.com/KatieS?ref=onemanandhisblog.com) can reorganize as she sees fit. Wish everyone at twitter nothing but best.— Vivian Schiller (@vivian) [October 8, 2014](https://twitter.com/vivian/status/519994546370117632?ref=onemanandhisblog.com)

There’s been an interesting trend of social-savvy journalists finding their way into the social networks – think [Joanna Geary at Twitter](http://www.niemanlab.org/2013/10/qa-guardian-social-and-community-editor-joanna-geary-heads-off-to-twitter-u-k/?ref=onemanandhisblog.com) in the UK, [Hannah Waldram at Instagram](http://instagram.com/hannahrw?ref=onemanandhisblog.com) and [Liz Heron at Facebook](https://www.facebook.com/lheron/posts/10152074095733127) – but the path is clearly more rocky than you’d think. The [Tumblr newsroom](http://www.onemanandhisblog.com/archives/2013/04/tumblr-storyboard-axed.html?ref=onemanandhisblog.com) was an early example of that.