This document summarizes a presentation about finding user-generated content and communities on social media for news. It discusses how to discover this type of content through targeted lists on Twitter and interest lists on Facebook and YouTube. It also covers verifying sources and user-generated content, including crowdsourcing verification through Storyful's Open Newsroom on Google+. The presentation concludes with a thank you from the presenter.

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NEWS FROM NOISE: FINDING UGC
& COMMUNITIES ON SOCIAL MEDIA
FOR NEWS
Asha Phillips, Asia Editor Storyful
@ashaphillips

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HOW TO DISCOVER UGC &
COMMUNITIES ON SOCIAL MEDIA

3. • Each second, 120,000 tweets sent globally
2.92m
11.25m
11.7m
Need to filter the firehouse

4. Organise pages into lists
Subscribe to priority accounts
1,000 lists per account
Help us cope with volume, filter social media into subsets and
allow early discovery of stories
Why are lists so crucial?

5. Targeted, well-maintained Twitter lists
are among the most powerful tool in your
social media newsgathering armory.
- Generate story ideas
- Read-in for your chosen beat
- Track your competitors’ habits
- Keep abreast of a breaking story
- Promote your entire team’s work
Twitter

6. Tweetdeck

7. Click here
to open out
interest lists
Facebook Interest Lists
& Communities

8. 1
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3
1 This is where your subscriptions live
2 Group your subscriptions into thematic collections
3 ‘Doorstep’ priority accounts so their uploads email you
YouTube Collections & Communities

9. YouTube Subscriptions

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SOURCE
DATE
LOCATION
VERIFICATION OF
SOURCES
AND UGC

11. Singapore
Lttle India
Riot
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14. Boston Marathon Bombing

15. Storyful hub entry

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Crowdsourcing: Storyful Open Newsroom on Google+:
https://plus.google.com/u/0/+OpenNewsroom/posts

19. Calling out & debunking fakes
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Viral ‘fake’: Eagle swoops & picks up
baby

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Source: @thornae

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THANK YOU
Asha Phillips, Asia Editor Storyful
@ashaphillips