{"id":365,"date":"2014-02-24T18:54:01","date_gmt":"2014-02-24T23:54:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.georgetown.edu\/cct\/announcements\/edward-erikson\/"},"modified":"2014-02-24T18:54:01","modified_gmt":"2014-02-24T23:54:01","slug":"edward-erikson","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.georgetown.edu\/2025-02-19_cct\/news-story\/edward-erikson\/","title":{"rendered":"CCT Alum Edward Erikson Publishes Article in TechPresident"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>CCT alum Edward Erikson has recently had his article &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/techpresident.com\/news\/23483\/backchannel-2013-year-jilted-tweep\">2013: the Year of the Jilted Tweep<\/a>&#8221; published on <a href=\"http:\/\/techpresident.com\/\">TechPresident<\/a>, an award-winning group blog covering activists, candidates, and the Internet. Erikson graduated in 2008, and is a senior associate at MacWilliams Sanders Communication and a teaching associate at University of Massachusetts-Amherst. 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