Dhruti Shah, UGC producer at BBC News, shared tips on finding and verifying stories on social media at the recent news:rewired digital journalism conference. Visit www.newsrewired.com to see more speakers and an accompanying audio track.

1. BACK TO BASICS….(AND OTHER
STORIES FROM THE UGC HUB)
Finding people
Dhruti Shah
Twitter: @DhrutiShah
dhruti.shah@bbc.co.uk

2. The best stories are about people
When a news story is breaking - want to find people at the heart of the story.
● Direct contacts
● Verification
● Accuracy
● Images
● Other people
PEOPLE

3. WHO?
WHAT?
WHY?
WHEN?
WHERE?
HOW?
QUESTIONS

5. Social networks - usual suspects
Facebook - change your settings to US when you want to do a search
Twitter - use advanced search
Google+ - think about associated gmail accounts
LinkedIn - worth having a LinkedIn Premium account
Geofeedia and other location tools
Instagram - new search tool out
Chatapps - WeChat, Whatsapp, Line, Telegram
Emails - old-fashioned yet still valuable
Pipl - deep web search
Mobile phone directories….
NETWORKS

6. TUNISIA/FRANCE ATTACK

7. EVERY MEANS POSSIBLE

8. SEARCHING

11. COLLABORATION

13. Look at the Twitter
handles….

15. CACHED PAGES

16. Two British students killed in Borneo. Find out more.
No name
No details
Nothing
Now what?
JIGSAW ID

19. Before social networking, there was just networking….
When you need a contact, don’t forget to ask friends, family connections….
BACK TO BASICS

21. Sally Taft’s history of the BBC’s UGC Hub
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-30421631
Alex Murray’s Leguape blog
http://www.leguape.com/portfolio/finding-ken-brown-his-photos-of-virgin-galactic-test-
flight-crash
BBC College of Journalism
http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/collegeofjournalism
First Draft News
https://medium.com/1st-draft
LINKS