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Digital reporting

Digital reporting. Social media. Crowdsourcing for reporting Monitoring For trends, conversation, what is happening in community. Finding sources Inspiration – story ideas . Crowdsourcing. Jake Tapper of ABC News:

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Digital reporting

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  1. Digital reporting

  2. Social media • Crowdsourcing for reporting • Monitoring • For trends, conversation, what is happening in community. • Finding sources • Inspiration – story ideas

  3. Crowdsourcing Jake Tapper of ABC News: A health insurance company raised its premiums in California, affecting thousands of people. He sent a tweet out to his followers, asking if any of them were members. @lemoneyes tweeted she was. He followed her, got her information through DM, emailed her, verified her situation and sent a camera crew to her. “The next morning she was on ABC's Good Morning America. There is no way I could have done that before.”

  4. Crowdsourcing Denver Post: Parents raiding their children’s credit during the recession Looking for a 20-something person whose credit had been trashed by parents who had taken a social security number for loans and other credit services Found her through Twitter

  5. Monitoring with Twitter Picking the brains of smart people and influencers. Great way to monitor news, events and happenings in your community. Inspiration for story ideas.

  6. Twitter lists • A great way to organize • Who you follow • Who follows you • Accounts you may not officially follow but want to keep track of.

  7. Beat reporters’ nirvana

  8. Where to find good followers Twitter suggestions Look at the followers of people you follow

  9. Finding helpful people to follow • Topsy – idea-generator • WeFollow – can search for experts, influencers • Twellow – a mixed bag • Listorious– find followers and experts. • Twiangulate – discover inner circles. • Socialmention – real-time search • Advanced Twitter search – by subject or location

  10. Twitter lists You can make your list private or public. You’re the only person who can see your private account. But because your account could be hacked, don’t put confidential sources in public or private lists.

  11. Who to follow? • When you follow someone, Twitter will suggest others • You can add the followers of the people you follow • You can follow the lists of others

  12. How to find sources? You can follow the lists of others

  13. Twitter lists Need to be strategic Need to be constantly adding and deleting.

  14. Monitoring • Twitter hashtags • City • University • State government • Schools

  15. Monitoring hashtags Hashtracking http://www.hashtracking.com/fast-report/?hashtag=j491 Twitter reach: http://tweetreach.com/

  16. Search: Twitter Advanced Twitter search Search operators Real conversations (no links) -filter:links

  17. Breaking news During breaking news, look for secondary hashtags In a big breaking story, retweets and commentary around the country might quickly overtake the hashtag. To find local people tweeting what they saw or experienced, use advanced search to search the hashtag with a location filter close to the scene.

  18. Monitoring Reddit Reddit community is generally smart and extraordinarily resourceful, which Denver Post found during Aurora shooting. (Dan Petty) Petty watches the sub-Reddit for Denver closely. http://www.reddit.com/reddits/

  19. Search: Facebook Finding people Real-time public posts Contacting a source Crowdsourcing – asking for storm photos, for example.

  20. Search: LinkedIn Advanced Search to find contacts. Sort the results by degrees away from you and then request an introduction from one of your connections so that the source will be more comfortable with you.

  21. Search: LinkedIn Let the story come to you! Keeping an up-to-date, robust profile ensures that potential sources will find you when they are seeking to tell their story. Ask a private question to your network to find the right inside connection or piece of information. LinkedIn for journalists

  22. Local, local TwitZip

  23. Ban.jo How a reporter used it.

  24. Finding sources on the scene FourSquare Use Storify to search tweets by location.

  25. Be proactive Build your credible online news source network before news breaks. Map out connections between sources.

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