#Podcast: Growing social media communities

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This week’s podcast looks at:

• How Future builds social media communities before launching a new product;
• How a wedding title retains brides-to-be within their social media communities after their big day;
• Tips on community building from the Guardian, which this week passed the 1 million followers milestone on its @Guardian flagship account.

Journalism.co.uk technology editor Sarah Marshall speaks to:

• Katherine Radarecht, group publisher at Future 
• Victoria Joy, online editor at YouAndYourWedding.co.uk, an Immediate Media title
• Laura Oliver, community manager, the Guardian

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#Podcast: The rise of microvideo in online news

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The rising tide of microvideo apps for smartphones is an increasing feature in online and mobile news reporting. This podcast looks at what is driving this change, some of the different platforms being used and what this could potentially mean for how news is received and reported in online and mobile forms in the future.

We speak to:

• Michael Downing, founder and CEO, Tout
• Jim Brady, editor-in-chief, Digital First Media
• Neha Manaktala, chief operations officer, Vizibee
• Marc Settle, trainer in mobile journalism, BBC College of Journalism
• Michael Anastasi, vice president and executive editor, Los Angeles Newspaper Group

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#Podcast – Snow Fall and beyond: A look at long-form online storytelling

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Following last month’s the Pulitzer prize for New York Times sports reporter John Branch, the author of Snow Fall: The Avalanche at Tunnel Creek, and this week’s Webby Awards which also recognised examples of beautiful long-form storytelling online, this week’s podcast looks at some of the exciting ways newspapers and others are telling in-depth stories on digital platforms.

The podcast addresses some of the issues which arise when bringing together long-form narrative with powerful visuals and interactivity, including the sorts of stories which best suit this approach, the benefits for audiences, journalists and news outlets, and the need for experimentation, even if on a smaller scale.

We speak to:

• John Branch, sports reporter, the New York Times, who won the Pulitzer prize for feature writing last month for Snow Fall
• Benji Lanyado, journalist and interactive designer, now also working on a new start-up
• Dan Zak, reporter, Washington Post, who authored The Prophets of Oak Ridge
• Sarah Sampsel, director of digital, mobile and new product design, Washington Post

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#Podcast: How journalists can gather news from diverse communities

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How can journalists gather news stories from different communities in the UK? And what are the considerations when newsgathering and finding stories that are relevant to audiences in particular parts of the world?

This podcast addresses those questions, providing tips on how reporters can find new sources in different communities around the UK, such as looking at forums.

It also looks at newsgathering in different regions, and how news outlets are pushing out stories on popular platforms in countries such as Russia, Iran and China.

Sarah Marshall, technology editor at Journalism.co.uk, speaks to:

• Ramaa Sharma, BBC Delhi digital editor
• Yasmine El Rafi, development editor for social media, Swedish Public Radio
• Dmitry Shishkin, digital development editor, BBC Global News
• Esra Dogramaci, who until recently was part of the social media team at Al Jazeera

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• ‘Social media needs to put the person at the heart of the story’ (by Esra Dogramaci)

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#Podcast: Managing user-generated content in breaking news

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User-generated content is becoming increasingly important in reporting on breaking news situations, so this week’s podcast looks at how different organisations and platforms manage the influx of user submitted content.

• Markham Nolan, managing editor, Storyful
• Dan Petty, social media editor, Denver Post
• Paul Owen, journalist and regular live blogger, Guardian
• Ken Goldberg, project leader of the Rashomon Project, UC Berkeley

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#Podcast: Getting started in data journalism

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The ability to analyse and untangle datasets is a vital skill for journalists in the age of endless information, so this week’s podcast focuses on how to get started in data journalism.

Getting started in data journalism and getting further than the basics can seem like a mountain of programming tools and coding languages, but the experts we spoke to describe how to take the first steps.

• Paul Bradshaw, online journalist, lecturer and blogger, Help Me Investigate.com
• Marianne Bouchart, web producer and data journalism projects co-ordinator, Bloomberg News
• Nicola Hughes, data journalist, Dataminer UK, 2011/12 Knight-Mozilla fellow at the Guardian, soon to join The Times

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#Podcast: How magazine publishers are innovating in online video

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Some magazine publishers started producing video more than 10 years ago, creating DVDs to attach to the front of magazines. Now many are producing hundreds of online videos a year.

Audiences are watching the films on the publishers’ own sites, on YouTube, and within apps; viewing on desktop computers, tablets, mobile phones and connected TVs.

In this podcast we hear from:

• Pete Wootton, managing director of Dennis Interactive, the digital division of Dennis Publishing
• Grant Bremner, head of Future TV at Future (which has titles including T3, TechRadar and Future Music)  
• Kevin Perry, assistant editor of NME.com (owned by IPC Media), who also manages the music title’s video content 

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#Podcast – Then and now: Two years of the New York Times paywall

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Just two days ago in the UK the Telegraph launched a metered paywall, which would require subscription once users exceed a 10 article allowance, following the introduction of the model for international-only traffic last year.

The Telegraph’s model was described as having a “New York Times-style ‘meter’”, and was launched in the same week as the New York Times’s paywall reaches two years in operation – two years today, in fact.

So in this week’s podcast we speak to general manager for core digital products at the New York Times Paul Smurl about how the environment in 2011 at launch differs to that today, when it comes to launching an online payment model. We also discuss the impact of the metered model on the rest of the industry with Robert Picard, director of research at the Reuters Institute and Tim Cain, head of research and insight at the Association of Online Publishers.

Interviewees:

• Paul Smurl, general manager for core digital products, New York Times
• Robert Picard, director of research at the Reuters Institute, at the University of Oxford
• Tim Cain, head of research and insight, Association of Online Publishers

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For more on the first two years of the New York Times paywall see this Journalism.co.uk feature, based on our interview with Paul Smurl.

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#Podcast: The changing face of journalism in Iraq

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To coincide with the tenth anniversary of the invasion of Iraq, this week’s podcast looks at how journalism has changed in the country.

From an explosion of new media outlets through the civil war and into the revolution in communications technology, the journalists we spoke to have a wealth of experience in the country.

• Dahr Jamail, author and investigative journalist, Al-Jazeera English
• Osama Mohammed, Baghdad bureau chief, Al-Jazeera English
• Nic Robertson, award-winning foreign correspondent, CNN
• Steven Lee Myers, embedded journalist and Baghdad bureau chief 2009-2011, the New York Times

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#Podcast – Career advice for aspiring music journalists

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This week’s podcast looks at music journalism as we speak to some experts in the field.

With tips on writing to entertain, maintaining professionalism and knowing your way around the industry, we’ve gathered advice on how to stand out from the crowd.

» Lucy Jones, deputy editor, NME.com
» Stevie Chick, journalist, author and lecturer, City University
» LuLu Le Vay, journalist, artist manager and lecturer, London Journalism Centre

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