I have emailed my local newspaper for the last few months asking them if they will set up a Twitter account.
To date my local newspaper, The Didcot Herald has not even graced me with an answer.
Today I found the email addresses of all the staff and sent them all this email:
Hello I thought I may try emailing all of you. To date I have not had an answer to my previous emails to the editor of the Didcot Herald.
Would it be possible for the Didcot Herald to have a Twitter account so that it can push out news updates to followers on the Twitter website?
A lot of local US papers use Twitter and push out little news updates as they come in. You can also use it to reference your website and paper, it could increase the traffic to your website.
The Twitter website is at http://twitter.com and no I don’t work for them, I just think it is a great tool and would like to see my local paper go cutting edge 
Please can someone from there at least have the manners to reply to an email asking questions?
Best Regards
Ernie
Well lets hope this time at least one of them answer. One of the main skills of journalism is communication, very poor Didcot Herald, very poor.
Good luck, I hope you hear back. They can ask me questions about it if they want