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Storyful - Tips for verifying images and videos from UGC

From www.nieman.harvard.edu - July 21, 2012 7:00 AM

Finding the Wisdom in the Crowd:

 

“The Storyful development team is building products that will help our journalists and clients map influence and connections within social media conversations and get an early warning of changes in their speed or intensity.

 

“We are also working to scale the techniques our editorial team has perfected in validating videos and images. At its core, this process is built around a checklist ... [LIST] ... Our approach to rating sources and the video they upload revolves around another checklist ... [LIST]”

 

This stuff is excellent!

 

(Published July 19, 2012.)

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Guardian's n0tice launches open journalism toolkit

Guardian's n0tice launches open journalism toolkit | Social Media and Journalists | Scoop.it
From www.journalism.co.uk - May 31, 2012 6:48 AM

“The Guardian's online noticeboard project n0tice has today launched an open journalism toolkit. The site has opened its API and content posted on n0tice can now be integrated into a digital news organisation's content management system. The free toolkit promises a host of features that can be utilised by news sites, including the ability to create crowdmaps based on information posted on n0tice. ...

 

“The open journalism toolkit has many possibilities for hyperlocal, local and national sites. The platform describes how n0tice offers publishers ‘a free off-the-shelf solution to some of the digital newsroom's current challenges including crowdmapping, mobile publishing, liveblogging and collaborating with users.’ ”

 

(Published May 22, 2012.)

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Combining social media and citizen journalism: n0tice

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From about.n0tice.com - March 29, 2012 8:59 PM

Guardian Media Group has launched n0tice for Web and mobile use. Right now, understandably, most posts are from England. But the platform looks quite easy to use, especially for uploading photos and embedding video. The geo-location aspect is slick, and it works well.

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