#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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#Tip of the day for journalists: Read Storyful’s new ebook on social newsgathering

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Social news agency Storyful has published an ebook on social newsgathering.

It has been edited by Claire Wardle and includes articles previously posted on the Storyful blog.

The ebook is in PDF format and is free, allowing you to learn things such as how to spot a fake or hoax image, how to verify content from social media, and how and why your should use Twitter’s own version of TweetDeck.

The Storyful blog has become one of our favourite tips sites, with practical advice shared by working journalists on how to get the most out of social newsgathering. Save this PDF to your tablet or phone and your next train journey will be an educational one.

If you have a tip you would like to submit to us at Journalism.co.uk email us using this link.

Hat tip: Mark Little

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#Tip of the day for journalists: Watch Storyful’s Hangout on verifying Sandy footage

If you are interested in learning more about verification, particularly around how user-generated video footage of Hurricane Sandy was verified, there is a Google+ Hangout later today that you should watch.

Social news agency Storyful, which verifies images and videos shared on social media and sends them to news outlet clients, is hosting a Google+ Hangout at 4.30pm today (10 December).

The Storyful blog explains why it is taking place and who is participating.

One month on [from Sandy], Storyful is hosting a Live to Air Google Hangout to discuss what happened during Sandy, the continued challenges faced by journalists trying to verify content in real-time, and the possibilities offered by technology during a big news event.

The panel includes:

Adam Blenford, journalist, BBC (US Bureau)

Liz Heron, social media director, Wall Street Journal

Aine Kerr, politics editor, Storyful

Tom Phillips, international editor at MSN UK and runs http://istwitterwrong.tumblr.com

Craig Silverman, editor of Regret the Error on Poynter.com

Paul Watson, chief technical officer, Storyful

The discussion will be moderated by Dr Claire Wardle, director of news services at Storyful, and will be held in front of a live audience at Google HQ Dublin. Students from New York’s Columbia Journalism School and a number of Dublin journalism programmes will also be joining the Hangout.

Storyful has prepared a short video which gives you a sense of the verification process.

Link to the Hangout: plus.google.com/+Storyful

Catch up later: youtube.com/storyful

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#Tip of the day for journalists: Using Facebook to find stories

Storyful, a service that partners with media companies to aggregate and verify news from social networks, has a guide to Facebook for journalists.

The blog post by Storyful.com editor Fiona McCann explains how journalists can use Facebook’s own search facility, and recommends a tool for anyone who is not logged into a Facebook account.

The post explains how to search public posts by ‘group’, ‘people’ and ‘pages’ within Facebook, and shows how to click on ‘see more results’ to bring up “a host of search filters”.

McCann also recommends Open Status Search [formerly known as Open Facebook Search] and has another great tip:

Open Status Search also offers a ‘get embed code’ button which offers the easily-copied html code for embedding a particular search on your own site, with options to customise width, height and number of search items displayed.

Read the full Storyful blog post.

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#Tip of the day for journalists – using Facebook for news gathering and more

Social news wire Storyful runs through the different ways journalists can use Facebook in this recent blog post, both for news gathering and finding leads as well as community engagement.

For more on using Facebook, here is a Journalism.co.uk guide to using Facebook Subscribe and a feature looking at how ProPublica is using a Facebook group to generate conversation and a support network around an investigation.

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#Tip of the day for journalists: Verifying locations featured in videos

Each week social news wire Storyful is publishing a blog post outlining a key skill for journalists, and this week looks at ways to verify locations featured in a video using online tools. This includes reference to tools such as Google Translate, Panoramio, Google Maps, OpenStreetmap, Bing Maps and Flickr, as well as many more.

See the full post here.

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#Tip of the day for journalists: Browser advice

The Storyful blog has a useful post on browsers: “the one internet tool that newsrooms use probably more often than any other”.

And Gavin Sheridan, Storyful’s innovation director, has a message for users of Internet Explorer 6.

These days, using IE6 in your newsroom isn’t just bad practice, it’s a professional hazard.

The post talks through the pros and cons of Firefox and Chrome. Read it in full at this link.

Storyful, a social media news agency, has great expertise in using internet research tools in newsgathering.

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#Podcast – Tips and tools for sorting the social media chaos

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This podcast looks at tips and tools for finding sources and stories via social media. It includes practical advice on finding the signal in the noise.

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

• David Wyllie, editor, BreakingNews
• Malachy Browne, news editor, Storyful
• Paul Quigley, chief executive and co-founder, NewsWhip
• Mohamed Nanabhay, co-founder of SignalNoi.se

Podcast: Download

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#Tip of the day from Journalism.co.uk – verifying videos and images from social media

Mark Little, chief executive and founder of Storyful, a social news agency, has written for Nieman on harnessing “the wisdom of the crowd“.

He shares the editorial processes that guide Storyful in verifying videos and images from social media.

Here is the first of two checklists followed by the editorial team:

• Can we geo-locate this footage? Are there any landmarks that allow us to verify the location via Google Maps or Wikimapia?
• Are streetscapes similar to geo-located photos on Panoramio or Google Street View?
• Do weather conditions correspond with reports on that day?
• Are shadows consistent with the reported time of day?
• Do vehicle registration plates or traffic signs indicate the country or state?
• Do accents or dialects heard in a video tell us the location?
• Does it jibe with other imagery people are uploading from this location?
• Does the video reflect events as reported on Storyful’s curated Twitter lists or by local news sources?

It is well worth reading the rest of the article as there is a second checklist.

Tipster: Sarah Marshall

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App of the week for journalists: Storyful, for curated social media stories

App of the week: Storyful

Phones: iPhone

Cost: Free

What is it? An iPhone app from social newswire Storyful to deliver the top stories from social media.

How is it of use to journalists? Want an easy way to track the top news stories on social media? Storyful’s new iPhone apps helps you search by top keywords (currently Cairo, Egypt and Obama), regions and date.

You are then presented with the stories as curated by the Storyful editorial team.

It can also link to StoryfulPro, the social newswire’s premium product which allows journalists to “find the most authentic voices and valuable content on the social web”.

Hat tip: Natasha Tynes, International Journalists’ Network

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