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U.C. Berkeley student’s Twitter messages alerted world to his arrest in Egypt – San Jose Mercury News

Buck, 29, a former Oakland Tribune multimedia intern, used the ubiquitous short messaging service to tap out a single word on his cellular phone: ARRESTED. The message went out to the cell phones and computers of a wide circle of friends in the United States and to the mostly leftist, anti-government bloggers in Egypt who are the subject of his graduate journalism project.

The next day, he walked out a free man with an Egyptian attorney hired by UC Berkeley at his side and the U.S. Embassy on the phone.

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About Andy Sternberg

Andy Sternberg is Chief Strategy Officer and founding partner at Adler Integrated. He's also an adjunct instructor of digital (multimedia) journalism at USC Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism. Find him on Google and Twitter @andysternberg.
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