Stay up-to-date – news services and tools

RNTC Multimedia Journalism & Water Course presentation

9 Nov 2013

How do you stay-up-to date?

• Subscriptions or events/workshops?• Internal sources or external sources?• Paper or electronic - email or web-based • Free or paid subscriptions?• Academic or practitioner news?• Local or international?• Live, daily, weekly or monthly?• WASH only or broader (development, your

profession)?• Pre-defined or personalised?• Third party or colleagues/friends (social media)?

New services and media

News services Mass media Professional media

Social media

Aggregate Govt or interest group controlled

Society / Association journals etc

Discussion forums

Select Independent news agencies

Trade magazines Blogs, Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Google+

Add value Citizen journalists Institutional news

Target Public opinion Professionals, funders, supporters

Peer groups, CoPs

News services

Mass Media News aggregators- News pre-selection- Reputation monitoring, effectiveness of mass media campaigns, trend

monitoring

Social Media Aggregators- Reputation monitoring, effectiveness of mass media campaigns,

hype monitoring

News Selectors- select and present most relevant news by region, topic etc

Added Value News Services- Summarise news, provide links to related news and resources,

include new events and funding opportunities, user interaction (share, comment, submit news)

International WASH news services

• E-Source - www.source.irc.nl/• IRIN – water and sanitation• Circle of Blue - www.circleofblue.org

• OOSKAnews - www.ooskanews.com• Global Water Intelligence -

www.globalwaterintel.com

Characteristics of WASH sector news

• Low profile in mass media• Professional media incIude a lot of PR

aimed at mass media, funders/sponsors and supporters

• No independent, critical WASH media• Debates in social media and corridors

E-Sourcehttp://www.source.irc.nl/

Blogshttp://sanitationupdates.wordpress.com/

Twitterhttp://twitter.com/#!/dietvorst/sanitation-updates

Paper.lihttp://paper.li/dietvorst/1307204592

Personalisation –My Source

• Personalised news by e-mail or as a news feed in for example Feedly

Personalisation 2 – Trove - http://www.trove.com/

Data journalism - 1

Data journalism - 2