Damien Cave: Reporting from Mexico City

Damien Cave, an on-the-scene reporter and journalist for the New York Times is based in Mexico City and covers news in Mexico, Central America, and the Caribbean. Mr. Cave was once the bureau chief for the New York Times, in Miami. And was also at one point, based out of Baghdad, where he wrote about the "American Troop surge and the consequences of violence." (http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/people/c/damien_cave/index.html) I love twitter and was happy to find a journalist who works for a paper I read, with an extensive twitter account - a networking site and app, I'm very familiar with. I already follow the New York Times on twitter as well as other news sources like the The Economist, but I'm not enough of a regular reader that I have journalists whom I specifically like and want to follow. Since I just took a history of Mexico course at Westminster, it was nice to see a journalist based in Mexico City, reporting on unfolding events right in Mexico, on a day to day basis. As many know, it can be $%#&@ crazy there. Between the poverty, the drugs, the corrupt governments - being an on-scene reporter requires a lot of guts.

Damien Cave, does much more than tweet about recent news, but we don't get to see or hear about all of it through his twitter. His twitter is rather interesting though, a lot of it seems to be keeping up to date with immigration reform, the statistics that it involves and so forth. He's also not afraid to speak his opinion, as other reporters I've researched, do. (Damien and others make it clear that their views are not that of the company they work for but solely theirs.) He also posts links to the newest articles that he's written for the actual NY Times. (See: http://query.nytimes.com/search/sitesearch/#/mexico+damien/since1851/allresults/1/byDamien+Cave/newest/) He tweets about border issues, casualties due to incidents and further violent events, gay marriage opinions from the public, dangerous and ongoing organizations in Mexico City, but he even tweets funny things - it's not strictly business with him. For example, most recently, he covered Jay-Z and Beyonce's trip to Cuba (ie. Was it legal? ) He retweets tweets from people he follows and he answers questions, as well as responds to other users. He tweeted about San Pedro, and pictures of what is considered to be one of the most dangerous cities in the world. He also tweets links to other articles that he likes about current events topics.

In the way that a blogger can show characteristics to make his/her blog more popular than others, Damien Cave seems to do that as well with his twitter account. He does write for some crowds more than other ie. he's liberal and his tweets show it, but he's witty and far from boring.

I follow him now.