#Tip: Sign up to Journalism.co.uk’s weekly podcasts

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A bit of self promotion here, but each week at Journalism.co.uk we produce a podcast looking at topical issues in journalism, often focused on digital innovations, tools and techniques.

Recent podcasts have included:

• Snow Fall and beyond: A look at long-form online storytelling
• How journalists can gather news from diverse communities
• Managing user-generated content in breaking news
• Getting started in data journalism
• How magazine publishers are innovating in online video
• Then and now: Two years of the New York Times paywall

The podcasts are published every Friday on the Journalism.co.uk homepage and our blog. All Journalism.co.uk podcasts are also published on our SoundCloud account, and you can sign up to Journalism.co.uk podcasts on iTunes.

The subjects covered in the podcasts should provide journalists with inspiration and practical tips, as well as give the opportunity to listen to what colleagues at news outlets across the world have to say on a range of subjects.

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#Tip: 10 online tools for reporting, storytelling and engagement

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Poynter have drawn up a list of 10 need-to-know tools for journalists, handily compiled into categories as research, social media and data tools.

The first tool, FOIA Machine, is an American project that is still sourcing contacts so UK users may wish to use What Do They Know as an alternative.

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#Tip: Try these tips to boost your hyperlocal Facebook page

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Pictures. Personality. Timeliness. Tips and tools for building online communities can sometimes seem rather general but blogger and journalist Ed Walker decided to put them all into practice for his hyperlocal site Blog Preston.

See how it worked for him and the detailed highlights of what made his month long campaign a success in this blog post.

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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 of the day for journalists: Pointers for covering events live on Twitter

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Trinity Mirror’s digital publishing director David Higgerson has produced a series of practical tips on ways he thinks journalists and news outlets can best offer live coverage of events on Twitter.

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#Tip of the day for journalists: Twitter’s tips for ‘best practice’

On its blog Twitter recently offered four “best practice” pointers for journalists using the platform, aimed at helping to “increase follower growth and engagement”. As the blog post explains:

The team analysed thousands of Tweets from more than 150 news brands and individual reporters around the world, determining four specific areas of focus: tweet your beat, use hashtags for context, @ cite your sources, and share what you’re reading.

See the full post here.

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#Tip of the day for journalists: team liveblogging pointers

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Over on PBS MediaShift Matt Stempeck outlines some pointers on liveblogging as a team effort. His tips, based on his own experiences, range from selecting a liveblogging platform through to dividing up responsibilities.

See the full post here.

Journalism.co.uk recently did a podcast outlining liveblogging tips for digital journalists, which you can listen to here.

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Journalism.co.uk is running a training course on liveblogging on Wednesday evening (12 September) in London. Find out more here.

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#Tip of the day from Journalism.co.uk – building communities and traffic

On the Reynolds Center for Business Journalism site Maria Perez outlines some of the key takeaways from s session at the BlogWorld & New Media Expo about “strategies for creating and building a community people will participate in”.

In a post she gathers together some of the pointers shared on growing a community and building up traffic.

Tipster: Rachel McAthy

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#Tip of the day from Journalism.co.uk – an ‘online video shopping list ‘

Multimedia producer and lecturer Adam Westbrook has written up an “online video shopping list”, outlining tips on planning and preparation through to advice on the “shopping trip itself” – the video shoot.

See his post here.

Tipster: Rachel McAthy

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#Tip of the day from Journalism.co.uk – online translation pointers

Senior editor at Storyful Mike Sefanov recently blogged about the techniques and technologies he employs to be able to translate a spectrum of languages:

Where once we were lost in translation, much of the meaning can now be found.

His post has also helpfully been turned into four key tips for online translation for reporters in a post on the International Journalists’ Network website.

Here is a link to Sefanov’s blog post and IJNet’s follow-up post.

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