#Tip of the day from Journalism.co.uk – advice on mobile reporting

Sky News correspondent Nick Martin has some advice for journalists using a mobile phone to record video.

He shared his tips at last week’s news:rewired journalism conference.

According to this post on three pieces of advice for journalists reporting using a mobile phone, Martin advises:

1. Practise

2. Don’t panic!

3. Use mobile reporting only when it was appropriate, explaining “that it is not worth setting up a tripod and XLR cables for an iPhone when the cameraman is just five minutes away”.

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#Tip of the day from Journalism.co.uk – use Topsy to search the social web

Topsy is a is search option recommended by Nicola Hughes, Knight-Mozilla Fellow at the Guardian during a workshop on searching social media at last week’s news:rewired conference.

It is also a previous Journalism.co.uk tool of the week.

Topsy is “one of the only Twitter search tools that has Tweets older than two weeks”, Hughes explained.

In order to research and verify images, Hughes advised putting images in to Topsy to see if they have been previously shared.

The full list of mentions of “Topsy” and #newsrw (the conference hashtag) are at this Topsy link.

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#Tip of the day from Journalism.co.uk – post to Facebook at 9am, 1pm, 3pm and 5pm

When is the best time to post a news story to Facebook? That was a question answered by Nate Lanxon, editor of Wired.co.uk, at Friday’s news:rewired journalism conference.

According to Lanxon, these times to post on the Wired.co.uk Facebook page – which he considers a “behind-the-scenes fan club” for Wired readers – are best:

• First thing in the morning when you get into the office;
• Lunch time;
• 3pm;
• Between 5 and 5.30p.m.

There are more tips from the session on social media optimisation at this link.

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#Tip of the day from Journalism.co.uk – new guide to Freedom of Information Act

The Information Commissioner’s Office has produced a “new plain English guide to Freedom of Information”. It is aimed at helping “public authorities better understand what the Act says and how to apply it”, but may be helpful in reminding journalists of the rules also.

See the guide here.

Tipster: Rachel McAthy

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#Tip of the day from Journalism.co.uk – media law academic papers

There’s some useful reading list on media law on the International Forum for Responsible Media blog (Inforrm), where Judith Townend has collected together a number of academic papers on the subject.

The papers cover topical issues such as defamation, privacy and regulation of the press. She has also indicated those which are free to access, and others which require subscriptions.

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#Tip of the day from Journalism.co.uk – using LinkedIn as a journalist

TheNextWeb has a post outlining some of the best ways journalists can make use of LinkedIn, such as by simply searching for contacts or looking at the financial results of companies of interest.

Journalism.co.uk has also recently compiled a list of ten tips for journalists on using the platform, and a podcast on making the most of the site which includes an interview with Krista Canfield, senior manager of corporate communications (consumer PR) at LinkedIn.

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#Tip of the day from Journalism.co.uk – kit checklist for mobile reporting

The 10,000 Words blog has produced a list of the key parts of a journalist’s “mobile reporting kit”, based on the advice of social media editor at New York Daily News, Anjali Mullany.

Read the post here.

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#Tip of the day from Journalism.co.uk – efficiency tools for journalists

Poynter has a post listing cheap and useful tools that can help entrepreneurial journalists be more efficient.

It recommends Evernote, Google Docs, tools for handling invoices, Dropbox and other file transfer tools, plus back-up solutions.

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Tipster: Sarah Marshall

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#Tip of the day from Journalism.co.uk – how to verify tweets

On Memeburn Peter Verweij has produced a great list running through the different ways journalists can verify the content of tweets and avoid being tripped up. These include using Twitter itself to crowdsource to verify information and also how to check the authenticity of images.

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#Tip of the day from Journalism.co.uk – using digital tools to report elections

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.

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