“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.
(Published Oct. 17, 2012.)
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Social Media and Journalists
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Journalists use social media to interact with audiences, stay informed, find sources, and share news.
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Mindy McAdams
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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.) 
Charlie Lares Rocha's curator insight,
June 9, 2013 9:24 PM
Print Journalism is a dying art. Sadly, I push foward to see newspapers and print disappear into the past. Online is new, its trend, its now!
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A report published this week by analytics platform Parse.ly highlights the times of day when online readership is highest and lowest
Mindy McAdams's insight:
Across both mobile and desktop platforms, peak use is at 12:18 p.m. The lowest use comes at 4:22 a.m. Published Nov. 7, 2014
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"If we had the story first, we had the scoop. And you have the story first if you have it on Twitter and/or on your website. I’m going to respond here both to the reporter’s questions and to editors who need to lead reporters like this to working and thinking Digital First. This will continue both my #twutorial and advice for editors series."
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Steve Buttry explains a forward-thinking approach to using Twitter -- for reporters.
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Jay Rosen teaches journalism at NYU, directs the Studio 20 program there, critiques the press and studies new media.
Mindy McAdams's insight:
This is a visual list of 10 tips for doing social media well. They are pretty much all you need to know. Well done, Jay Rosen!
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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."
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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. 
Miquel Loriz's curator insight,
March 16, 2013 8:37 AM
Una buena guía con sugerencias para verificar los tweets
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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."
Mindy McAdams's insight:
When news organizations accept content from users, the news professonals need to follow professional standards.
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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.
Mindy McAdams's insight:
This is a good list that emphasizes how Twitter differs from Facebook (and consequently is more useful, if you use it well).
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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 
Javier Arias's curator insight,
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.
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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.”
(Published Oct. 11, 2012.) |
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A version of this post originally appeared on Help Me Investigate Welfare. Every so often on Help Me Investigate we compile a list* of people on Twitter to follow on particular issues. Here's how w...
Mindy McAdams's insight:
This post provides useful how-to information and links that most journalists probably do not know about. 
Glenn Morrison's curator insight,
April 2, 2016 6:19 PM
This post provides useful how-to information and links that most journalists probably do not know about.
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Journalists can try one of these 15 social media tools to find stories, interview subjects and stay organized.
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A list of tips and useful tools — from BBC journalist and social media team leader Cordelia Hebblethwaite. Trust me — you have not heard about all of these! (Including TweetDeck’s “magic button.”)
Published Nov. 4, 2014
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"A growing directory of tools for verifying, fact checking and assessing the validity of social media and user generated content."
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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.
Mindy McAdams's insight:
Journalists apparrently did not understand that a photo taken in 2008 might appear on your Facebook timeline in 2013. Major blunder.
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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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Interesting that the article does not mention Scoop.it.
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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.
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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.
Mindy McAdams's insight:
List of eight ways journalists are using Spundge "Notebooks."
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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
Javier Arias's curator insight,
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
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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.)
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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.)
Dasom Ssomy Kim's comment,
May 8, 2013 5:54 AM
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.
(Published Oct. 17, 2012.)
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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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