#Tip: Take a look at this flow-chart guide to Leveson

The DCMS has released a flow-chart guide to help bloggers and publishers understand the regulation criteria following Leveson.

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You might also enjoy Martin Belam’s alternative flow-chart to help understand how Leveson works for bloggers.

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#Tip: Know where the video mic is on your iPhone

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If you are an iPhone user and shoot video, do you know where the microphone is that records sound for video?

If you have an iPhone, 4, 4S or 5 and you think it is at the ‘bottom’ of your mobile, close to where your mouth would be when speaking on the phone, you are wrong.

The video mic on the 4 and 4S is the small dot next to the headphone socket (see image above). On the iPhone 5 the video mic is close to the camera lens.

The three models have a separate microphone for video, Marc Settle, who trains BBC reporters in using iPhones to shoot video, has pointed out.

As Glen Mulcahy, innovation lead at Irish broadcaster RTE, explains in this helpful post, Settle demonstrated to him that the video mic is not where many people think it is.

The advice comes after Mulcahy led a session on mobile journalism at Friday’s news:rewired, a conference run by Journalism.co.uk.

Read Glen Mulcahy’s blog post for more and for pictures of the mic locations.

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#Tip: Videonotes can streamline online research

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Keeping track of notes when researching a story can sometimes be a struggle, especially when they refer to online resources. Videonotes (not to be confused with VideoNote) can help to ease the process by letting you tag notes to any video from around the internet, as this article from The Next Web explains.

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#Tip: Social media mistakes journalists make in a crisis

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In light of the recent events in Boston and issues that regularly arise when covering crises and breaking news stories on social media, Slate magazine’s social media editor, Jeremy Stahl, has drawn up some advice on what a journalist should or should not tweet during a crisis situation.

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#Tip: Funding advice for journalism start-ups

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Jordan Young published a blog post earlier this month on the Knight Lab website aimed at those setting out with a new journalism business, and looking for some financial backing. The post features her 10 tips for securing funding, drawing from her own experience of doing just the same with Boxx Magazine.

Hatip: MediaShift (which has republished the post)

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#Tip: Some useful Chrome extensions for reporters

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The ever-useful 10,000 Words blog has produced a collection of five Chrome extensions which could prove helpful for journalists to install, both for reporting and organisation purposes.

One not on the list, but a firm favourite here at Journalism.co.uk, is Transcribe, which lets users listen to their audio, transcribe, pause, rewind, slow down, speed up and fast-foward, all in the same window.

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#Tip: Tools for creating visualisations of data

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The website for .net magazine has posted a list of 20 tools and platforms journalists may find useful when looking to visualise data. The list also organises the tools by type, based on users’ skillsets or the sort of visualisation they want to build.

See the post by Brian Suda here.

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#Tip: Pointers on reporting local elections

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Local elections in the UK are now less than a month away and the helpful folks over at Talk About Local have put together some tools and tips for reporting on the events in a hyperlocal context.

The tools are presented in a public Google doc while a blogpost from media law expert David Banks is also provided to warn against any potential legal pitfalls.

As the Google doc is open source, the Talk About Local team hope users will add their own suggestions to create an “open source toolkit for elections”, so feel free to contribute if you know of any more.

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#Tip: Learn from this post on verifying pope story

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The BBC College of Journalism has published a post explaining how journalists could have fact-checked an image that allegedly shows Jorge Bergoglio, the recently elected Pope Francis, standing beside former Argentine dictator Jorge Videla.

The post, which is by Henk van Ess, who chairs the VVOJ, (the Association of Investigative Journalists for The Netherlands and Belgium), explains how internet research could have debunked the incorrect story.

The post explains various tools, tricks and tips that can be useful in verification, such as Backtweets, Google advanced operators and he advises to “always think ‘video’ when you see a picture”.

The must-read post is at this link.

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#Tip: Avoiding common mistakes in science reporting

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Last month we highlighted the Guardian’s recent post on science writing in journalism, so today we thought we would point you in the direction of a guide from Peter Ingliski at Poynter on some of the ‘biggest mistakes’ in science reporting and, more importantly, how to avoid them.

Don’t know a boson from a bison? This post will give you a helping hand.

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