Here's a crowdsourced list of sites and tools that journalists are using in their work. The links point to articles that explain how journalists use these tools.
(Published Feb. 16, 2012.)
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"The image-sharing network Pinterest released a new analytics tool this week that serves up lots of data about how its users engage with your website’s content." Delete the scoop?
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“Your job is to verify the information that looks useful. As with all the other information you gather, you can verify lots of different ways, and no single technique works for everything.”
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This is required reading for every journalist and every journalism student. 
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March 16, 8:37 AM
Una buena guía con sugerencias para verificar los tweets Delete the scoop?
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"The Associated Press has updated its AP Stylebook with an expanded section on best practices for handling user-generated content. Here are a few of the AP Stylebook's tips."
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When news organizations accept content from users, the news professonals need to follow professional standards. Delete the scoop?
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Every day I meet people who ask me why they should be active on Twitter and every day I see Twitter friends try to hide their frustration over those that don’t understand their attachment. Here are 9 great ways to use Twitter.
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This is a good list that emphasizes how Twitter differs from Facebook (and consequently is more useful, if you use it well). Delete the scoop?
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“... community manager Meghan Peters discussed how social networks are evolving their content strategies, with Jessica Bennett, editorial director at Tumblr, and Daniel Roth, executive editor at LinkedIn.
(Published Dec. 4, 2012.) Via Sakulsri Srisaracam 
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December 30, 2012 6:45 AM
A tener en cuenta estos datos que son abrumadores Tumblr tiene 3 veces más tráfico que el New York TImes y la CNN con más de 80 millones de blogs y 170 millones de usuarios de los que más del 50 % tienen menos de 30 años. Audiencia, Plataforma, Periodismo, Rentabilidad. Función Social. Cómo conjugar estos pilares para dar con el modelo de negocio que haga posible un nuevo periodismo en una sociedad que está cambiando tan drásticamente su forma de comunicarse y de informarse. Delete the scoop?
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“If you’re just starting out in social media and looking for something to make running and measuring your campaigns a bit easier, here are a few of the most widely used and effective social media management and analytics tools available ...”
(Published Nov. 20, 2012.)
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“After watching the videos and poking around a bit, Popcorn Maker feels like Storify but with a video wrapper.”
(Published Nov. 12, 2012.)
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“Time, however, took a different -- and in my opinion better -- approach, hiring five well-known photographers to man their Instagram account.
“The resulting coverage is pretty fascinating to go through right now, but it was even more fascinating to watch it unfold live, which is the point of using something like Instagram.”
(Published Oct. 30, 2012.)
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This infographic shows results of an analysis of the top 1,000 YouTube channels: “... over one million YouTubers run ads on their content. To put it another way, YouTube writes checks to more than one million people monthly. That's more than the U.S. television industry employs.
“The highest-performing 1,000 make a cool six figures a year. According to OpenSlate, the average revenue for the top 1,000 channels is $23,000 a month for an average annual payout of $276,000.”
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“Simply posting headlines and links has never been good Facebook practice. Now it will nearly ensure that your posts will get little engagement and exposure. Posts should be conversational, whether you are doing a status update or posting a caption for a photo.”
“Changes to the algorithm guiding the Facebook news feed make it more important than ever that newsrooms and journalists engage effectively on Facebook.”
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Jonah Peretti is the founder and CEO of BuzzFeed. He writes: "BuzzFeed is a social publisher with 30 million monthly visitors and Facebook is our largest source of traffic." Then he tells you how they do it in this brilliant list of 13 tips.
(Published Oct. 1, 2012.)
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Telling people to use a hashtag can turn around and bite you: “Thanks to Twitter's overdeveloped instinct for mockery, this is a fairly common tale. ... so common that it even earned an insufferably jargony name: a bashtag. ... Romney's stacks up as one of the worst bashtags Twitter's seen.” #AreYouBetterOff
(Published Sept. 6, 2012.)
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Bad Facebook journalism is popping up, because nobody really understands how it works. If only someone would pick up the phone to verify now and then.
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Journalists apparrently did not understand that a photo taken in 2008 might appear on your Facebook timeline in 2013. Major blunder. Delete the scoop?
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“If you haven’t seen The Wall Street Journal’s RebelMouse page for New York Fashion Week (NYFW) or their previous Davos coverage, you are missing out on some of the most rigorous and vital social beat reporting experiments in digital journalism.”
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"Claire Wardle, director of news services at Storyful, and Emma Meese, media and training development manager at Cardiff School of Journalism, shared their tips for how to make the most out of social media at the Cardiff Journalism Conference" on January 16, 2013. Via Andy Bull Delete the scoop?
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We created Spundge to make it easier for individuals and teams to find, share and publish content and expected our Notebooks would appeal to journalists.
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List of eight ways journalists are using Spundge "Notebooks." Delete the scoop?
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An EXCELLENT PowerPoint that introduces Tumblr and how journalism organizations are using it. SLIDE 25: Why Tumblr for Journos - Mine Tumblr for story ideas - Engage your readers (Tumblr followers) - Connect with other journalists on Tumblr - Selectively send posts to Facebook/Twitter - Link Instagram photos to Tumblr
(Published March 6, 2012.) Via Francesca Robin
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December 30, 2012 6:39 AM
completísima presentación que analiza cómo usar la plataforma de microblogging Tumblr para hacer periodismo en la web via Mindy McAdams Delete the scoop?
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Mainly they are sending people to older content that features photos. Hardly brilliant, but there is value in getting new visitors.
(Published Dec. 10, 2012.) Delete the scoop?
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“The Boston Globe has a wall displaying every Instagram picture posted in the local area and is using it as a source for stories – such as to discover the sharing of photos by some people in Boston of their daytime drinking during a day off post-Hurricane Sandy.”
(Published Nov. 13, 2012.)
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The Boston Globe has a wall showing every Instagram picture posted locally and is using it as a source of stories
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“Services like Twitter remind us that reporting just the facts of an event isn’t enough. We all hear about what’s happening from everywhere. What journalists and thinkers and experts in subjects that matter should do is add deep context and understanding to events. When we are all inundated with unending streams of information, what matters most is context ...”
(Published Nov. 2, 2012.)
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“1. To post news programming; 2. To report from the field and post audio from interviews; 3. Record, edit and upload a recording from an iPhone ...” and five more.
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An article by Richard Koci Hernandez, “a national Emmy award-winning multimedia producer who has worked as a photojournalist for more than 15 years. A two-time Pulitzer Prize nominee, he currently teaches at the University of California's Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism.”
(Published Oct. 14, 2012.)
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“Of the Americans surveyed who currently use a social media platform, only 18 percent currently have a profile on Instagram. That’s paltry compared to Facebook (94%) or Twitter (47%). But here are four reasons why Instagram could explode in 2013.”
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“The initial wave of SoundCloud users from the radio world included CNN Radio, Boston's WBUR and KCRW in Los Angeles. Since then, the company has been cultivating the on-air community in earnest.”
(Published Sept. 28, 2012.)
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“1. Write a Good Headline. 2. Break up Your Posts. 3. Optimize for Search.” Plus two more. Links to longer articles provide explanations.
(Published Sept. 5, 2012.)
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