These are slides for three workshops for the Los Angeles News Group: on community engagement, attribution and using social media to do better journalism.
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4. Social media = journo tool
1. Livetweet events &
breaking news
2. Search
3. Crowdsource
4. Monitor community
conversation
5. Curate
6. Hashtags
7. Lists
8. Embed tweets in
stories
9. Photos & videos
10.Verification
5. Live-tweeting situations
• Trials
• Meetings
• Sporting events (curate w/ public tweets:
Friday Night Tweets)
• Festivals
• Breaking stories
• Remember to feed site using ScribbleLive
6. Livetweeting tips
• Don’t transcribe; observe & report
• In sports, mix play-by-play & commentary
• Use hashtag (& check & engage)
• OK to pause for checking facts, names
• Note significant pause (halftime, lunch)
• Fun interludes, exchanges, anecdotes
• Check facts before you hit “tweet”
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• Twitter advanced search
• Facebook graph search
• Search for keywords, hashtags, users
• Big news? Search: Holy shit, WTF
• Search by location (but most tweets
aren’t geotagged)
• Use Geofeedia (more than just tweets)
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30. Crowdsourcing tips
• Say what you know, what you need to
know
• Don’t ask for help; invite people to tell
their stories, share their photos
• Reach broader audience (hashtags, ask on
FB pages of groups w/ interests)
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• Use Facebook, Twitter, G+, website, paper
• Search & crowdsource simultaneously
• Be careful about repeating rumors
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• Follow officials on beat
• Searches, alerts for people & keywords
on beat
• Save location searches for breaking-news
terms (fire, emergency, siren)
• Save local searches
• Join conversation
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45. 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
46. Curation
Situations
• Reaction story
• Public event (as
LANG did for
graduations)
• Second screen
• Breaking story
Tools
• Storify
• Spundge
• Geofeedia
• RebelMouse
49. Hashtag tips
• Use existing hashtag if there is one
• Search before launching hashtag (avoid
duplication)
• Look for secondary hashtags, especially
in events or breaking news
• Hashtags help you find witnesses & other
sources
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53. Lists
• Organize beat by lists
• Lists save time
• TweetDeck, HootSuite
• Create list for story (who’s tweeting
about it?)
• Embed list in story or blog post
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59. Vetting & verifying
• Track back RTs, etc.
to source
• Look for clusters
• Location enabled?
• Evaluate the network
• Evaluate the history
• Links, photos?
• Take it old school
• Disclose, hedge, repe
at
• Be brave only in
correction
Tips from Craig Silverman, Regret the Error
60. Evaluating tweeps
• How long have they been tweeting?
• Check previous tweets, interaction
• Check bio, links
• Check Klout score
• Google name and scam, spammer
• Contact & interview
Tips from Mandy Jenkins, Zombie Journalism
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Hinweis der Redaktion
We’ll start with some examples of why Twitter is a valuable breaking-news tool. Most will, of course, remember that Twitpic had the first shot of the Hudson landing.
We’ll also discuss the Denver plane crash that Mike Wilson survived and how the media missed an opportunity by not using Twitter.