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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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The Center for Investigative Reporting (CIR) is helping to launch the new “I Files” channel, which will curate videos from The New York Times and Al Jazeera. The channel’s purpose is to promote user-created content and citizen journalism, which has seen becoming a growing source of news for the average citizen. Via Francesco Pintus, Andy Bull Delete the scoop?
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“He is like the host of a daylong radio show, except no one speaks out loud. He rarely makes phone calls. His phone almost never rings.
“Some of what he writes is air and sugar. Some of it is wrong or incomplete or misleading. But he delivers jolts of sharp, original insight often enough to hold the attention of a high-powered audience that includes economists like The Times columnist Paul Krugman and Wall Street heavies like the hedge-fund manager Douglas Kass and the bond investor Jeff Gundlach.”
(Published May 10, 2012.) This is a New York Times profile of a financial blogger who works 16-hour days, often writing 15 posts in one day. Delete the scoop?
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When BBC News political correspondent Laura Kuenssberg left the BBC to join ITV News, she had to abandon her Twitter account and start a new one for her new job.
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"For reporters who can use Pinterest to gain similarly deep insights into their readers’ behaviors, the site could provide an opportunity to try and get ahead of consumer trend stories. But Pinterest is still limited in its usefulness as a tool for business reporters. It might become a stronger business reporting tool if metrics better gauge product sales related to pinning emerge, said Anthony De Rosa, Reuters social media guru. At the moment that’s not something that’s easy to track."
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How to use LinkedIn, Facebook, Twitter, Google+, e-mail, blogs, Twitter, Foursquare and YouTube to cover events. This advice may be more useful to organizations that host events than to journalists -- but if you attend and cover big conferences, trade shows, etc., this might be helpful to you.
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"[T]here comes an obligation to use social media tools in a way that benefits both the reporter/news organization, and the reader.
"In addition to reporting the fact on the ground, providing context for stories and engaging readers, the reporter should also act as a content curator for the readers interested in that particular beat." Delete the scoop?
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"... to cover a group of activists who are the constant target of their governments — is to enter a shadowy world. A world that largely exists online.
"How to make this into great radio? It’s a challenge.
"In the best-case scenario, those long hours of chatting with activists on Skype eventually yield secret meetings with people who are willing to go on tape."
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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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Examples include “a journalist live-tweeting a conversation overheard on a train” and an incident on a plane when a woman live-tweeted an exchange with an actor. Food for thought: What is the ethical course of action? (Published July 19, 2012.) Delete the scoop?
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“When should journalists use their personal social media accounts and when should they use the branded newsroom accounts? ... I see two primary issues here: effective crowdsourcing strategy and control of staff members and their work.”
Advice from Steve Buttry, director of community engagement and social media, Digital First Media.
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"This how-to features advice from a panel of experts on the key considerations, questions and tools journalists should have in mind when carrying out verification of content that surfaces via social media, be it a news tip, an image, a piece of audio or video.
"The process covers three main stages: monitoring of social networks and the online community before news breaks, checking the content when it comes into play and subsequently reporting that content once verified. The comprehensive advice outlined in this how-to guide offers practical steps, specific questions and cross-checks journalists can make at each stage, as well as online tools to support them."
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"‘The best journalism is reporting on stories by digging up information, adding analysis and putting it into context in a way that’s not already on Google,’ said Rebecca MacKinnon, former CNN journalist, co-founder of of Global Voices Online and currently a senior fellow with the New America Foundation."
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"He didn’t just retweet content without comment but vetted it, asking for confirmation, sourcing, more details, playing his followers against each other as if he were an assigning editor of an incorporeal newsroom.
"He became a dogged beat reporter, far removed from the scene but covering it at all hours, exposing his messy and complicated process for all to see."
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Mustafa Kazemi, an Afghanistan-born war reporter, is using Twitter to cover political strife and warfare in his home country.
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"Today was a perfect example of how I use Instagram in the field. My goal is to spark interest and start discussions well before the story airs. My updates mention my station, and if I know what time the story will air, I’ll mention that as well."
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