#Tip of the day from Journalism.co.uk – using digital tools to report elections
January 27th, 2012Posted by Rachel McAthy in Top tips for journalists
Mashable has a very useful post which looks at how news outlets are using online tools to cover elections in the US, which offers some great ideas for journalists to take note of.
These range from hosting debates on social media platforms to produce interactive maps and “delegate trackers”.
Last year we also collected together five tools journalists might like to try when reporting election results, from visualisation tools to social publishing platforms.
Tipster: Rachel McAthy
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