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Social mediaand reporting
Steve [email protected]
Committee of Concerned JournalistsGeorgetown University #CCJPortugal
August 30, 2011
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Getting started:• Set up profile at Twitter.com• Be sure to add bio, link, photo (later)• Add mobile option (later)• Tweet several times during workshop• Choose people to follow (later)• Twitter tips at stevebuttry.wordpress.com
Live-tweeting this workshop• Straight reporting• Commentary• Links• Photographs
Photo sharing
Document sharing
Link-sharing
Location-based services
Social blogging
Networking, travel
Curation
Live reporting
What’s next?
International tools
Social fame is fleeting
Social media uses• Daily routine• Find sources• Breaking news• Crowdsourcing• Investigative reporting• Report news• Distribute content• Personal & newsroom accounts
Shortbreak
• Many more users• Much info private• Tougher to search• Not as immediate
(less frequent updates)
• Engage, don’t intrude
• Great for breaking news
• Great real-time search
• Engagement not as intrusive
• Hashtags help w/ search, conversation
• Connect w/ sources (balance, disclosure?)
• Check pages of agencies, people on beat• Crowdsourcing (ask on their pages as
well as yours)• Look for people in the news• Journalist page
• Follow officials & agencies on beat• Twitter Search (advanced)• Hashtags (regular & spontaneous)• NearbyTweets• Breaking news• Crowdsourcing
Before the big story breaks• Follow lots of local people
(NearbyTweets, replies, retweets, check followers)
• Join local conversation• Master Twitter search (advanced)• Promote local #hashtag taxonomy
(#okstorm)• Use Twitter routinely on your beat
Quakes and tornadoes• Indonesia• Twitter HQ, Virginia earthquake
When the big story breaks• Twitter Search
(advanced)• Connect w/ witnesses• Crowdsource• Tweet early & often• Seek verification• Address rumors (say
what you don’t know)• Seek photos
• Converse• Answer questions• Thank contributors• Promote fresh content• Link to new reports
(even competitors’)• Be human (fun where
appropriate)
@statesman case study
Crowdsource
Crowdsource
Say what you don’t know
Converse w/ public
Link to fresh content
Link to fresh content
Routine beat coverage• Follow officials & agencies on beat• Twitter Search (advanced)• Hashtags (regular & spontaneous)• Lists (Twitter, TweetDeck, HootSuite)• Breaking news• Crowdsourcing• Liveblog (feeding in tweets)
People to follow
• Look for sources (find people)• Ask sources• Journalists in other communities• When someone follows you, check out to
see whether you should follow back• When you follow someone, check whom
they follow• Tweeps mentioned in interesting tweets
Ethical considerations
• How do you identify yourself?• Ask skeptical questions• Seek verification• Ask question, don’t repeat rumor• Correct quickly
Twitter chats for journos• #ASNEchat, starting today, Tuesdays,
noon ET (5 p.m. Lisbon)• #wjchat, Wednesdays, 8 p.m. ET (1 a.m.
Lisbon)• #spjchat, Thursdays at 8 p.m. ET• #jrcchat, Wednesdays, noon ET
NPR’s Andy Carvin
“I think curation has always been a part of journalism; we just didn't call it that.” – quoted in The Atlantic by Phoebe Connelly
What is curation?Museum curator:• Studies topic• Chooses relevant
content (other sources & museum collection)
• Authenticates• Groups related items• Provides context• Presents exhibit
Journalism curator:• Studies topic• Chooses relevant
content (social media, blogs, staff)
• Authenticates• Groups related items• Provides context• Presents collected
content
Curation tools for journos• Google & other search engines• Twitter Search (advanced)• Other Social media search• Storify, Storyful, Chirpstory• Blackbird Pie• Quote URL
Curation sources• Social media (Twitter, Facebook, Flickr,
YouTube …)• Blogs• Staff content (current & archives)• Other news media (yes, competition)
Authenticate & attribute• Ask: “How do you know that?”• Ask careful questions of crowd to help
you vet & verify• Check links, tweets & information on
sources• Link to original source• Attribute
Try something new• Twitter• Facebook• Storify• Flickr• YouTube• Google+
• Foursquare• StumbleUpon• Tumblr• LinkedIn• Quora• Scribd
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