#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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We will have more on Journalism.co.uk next week from the podcast interviewees on this subject.

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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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You might also be interested in:

• Four tips on finding stories from diverse communities (from Yasmine El Rafi)
• ‘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 – Robot reporting: A look at the LA Times data desk

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If you were working on a newsdesk in California when you got reports of an earthquake, would you go and copy and paste the details from the the US Geological Survey email that was auto-generated.

Would you write when and where it happened and how powerful it was? Would you grab a map and encourage sub-editors to publish quickly?

Well, the Los Angeles Times would have already beaten you to it. It would have auto-published a post, complete with auto-generated headline, a map, and a Ken Schwencke’s byline, the person who wrote the code that auto-writes a story using information from the US Geological Survey.

In this podcast we hear about this example of robot reporting from the LA Times data desk and others, plus look at how internal databases can assist journalists. We also hear about recent data projects from the LA Times.

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

• Ben Welsh, database producer, Los Angeles Times
• Brian Boyer, news applications editor, NPR and project leader on the PANDA project

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• For more on the PANDA ‘data library’, see this article
• For more on robot reporting and the data desk at the LA Times, see Ben Welsh’s blog
• For a video from last week’s NICAR of Ben Welsh’s “five-minute rant” and Welsh telling coders the five things need to learn from reporters, see Chrys Wu’s NICAR round-up post on Nieman Lab
• For five ways robots can improve accuracy, journalism quality, see today’s post by Craig Silverman on Poynter

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#Podcast: A look at the different ways news sites use live video

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News outlets are often looking at new and interesting ways to use video to tell stories online, and live video offers news sites a great opportunity to offer audiences different live experiences of the news agenda, from as-it-happens coverage at the heart of the story, to live video discussions in a news studio environment.

In this week’s podcast we look at some of the different ways news outlets – including the Telegraph, Wall Street Journal and Huffington Post – use live video on digital platforms and some of the benefits they enjoy as a result.

In order of appearance, the podcast hears from:

• Jonas Vig, co-founder and chief executive, Bambuser
• Nick Martin, news correspondent, Sky News
• James Weeks, head of video, Telegraph Media Group
• Sue Brooks, director of transformation, Associated Press
• Andy Regal, executive producer, Wall Street Journal Digital Video Network
• Roy Sekoff, president/co-creator, HuffPost Live

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#Podcast – Career advice for aspiring sports journalists

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This week’s podcast looks at sports journalism and gets expert advice on how to succeed.

Recommendations include the value of experience, getting the right training and other potential in-roads to this popular and competitive sector.

• Sean Ingle, sports editor, Guardian.co.uk
• Nick Powell, sports editor, Sky News
• James Toney, managing editor, Sportsbeat
• Keith Elliott, head of careers, Sports Journalists’ Association
• Jonny Lally, media officer, Leicester City FC

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