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#FollowJourn @charlesarthur/technology editor

#FollowJourn: Charles Arthur

Who? Technology editor at the Guardian.

What? Arthur was previously technology editor at the Independent, writing about technology, science and the environment before going freelance. Now he edits the Guardian’s weekly technology supplement and site. 

Where? @charlesarthur and www.charlesarthur.com

Contact? Via Twitter or his blog.

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#FollowJourn @ashantiomkar/freelancer

#FollowJourn: Ashanti Omkar

Who? Freelance broadcast and print journalist in film, music and culture.

What? Omkar pursued journalism after a career in IT and describes herself as journalist, poet and presenter.

Where? @ashantiomkar and www.omkari.com

Contact? theomkarconnection [at] gmail.com

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#FollowJourn @lgcplus/online editor

#FollowJourn: Robin Latchem

Who? Online editor for Local Government Chronicle.

What? Latchem is responsible for maintaining and developing LGC online. This includes both day-to-day reports and introducing digital content to complement LGC’s magazine offering.

Where? @lgcplus

Contact? robin.latchem [at] emap.com

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#FollowJourn: @michaelomh/music editor

#FollowJourn: Michael Hubbard

Who? Founder and musc editor of MusicOMH

What? Hubbard founded MusicOMH. He writes for and edits the music section, and looks after the behind-the-scenes bits of the site.

Where? @michaelomh

Contact? michael.hubbard [at] musicomh.com

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Cit-J site Allvoices adds Twitter info to help verify news stories

Citizen journalism site www.allvoices.com has introduced live event and location-specific Twitter data into its reports, the site announced in a press release yesterday.

The site will now display the latest tweets relating to news stories by location (city, country and region). Around reports from its users, it will include Twitter updates relating to that particular event or news item.

For ‘mainstream’ news reported on the site, Allvoices will now include aggregated tweets relating to those reports to show the conversation around the news.

The addition of the Twitter data will help the site vet stories for authenticity, Allvoices explained. It will be used to provide additional context and rank reports in Allvoices’ ‘Breaking’ and ‘Popular’ news categories. The integration will also add a real-time element to the site’s news stories.

The Twitter data will supplement the existing vetting procedure, which pulls together related content from mainstream news and user-generated sources, like videos, blogs and pictures, to attempt a ‘360-degree view of the news’.

“Twitter alone as a source for news doesn’t have the ability to tell a full story. Allvoices delivers the full story for a report plus a deeper understanding of the conversations going on around that event. What’s great about the system we’ve built is that it can take virtually any data source and apply it to user-generated and mainstream news reports,” said Dr Sanjay Sood, chief technical officer for allvoices.com, in the release.

In May this year the site introduced an incentive scheme for its contributors.

#FollowJourn @noodlepie/digital editor

#FollowJourn: Graham Holliday

Who? Digital editor and media trainer for Frontline Club.

What? Holliday started his online blogging site www.noodlepie.com, in 2004, while he was living in Saigon, Vietnam. As well as working for The Frontline Club, Holliday also blogs about food for the Observer Food Monthly blog Word of Mouth and for BBC Good Food.

Where? @noodlepie

Contact? graham [at] noodlepie.com

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First web editors appointed to American Society of News Editors’ board

The American Society of News Editors (ASNE) has appointed not one, but two web editors to its board – the first time web editors have been represented on the group’s executive in its almost 100-year history (picked up via Editor & Publisher).

John Harris, editor-in-chief of Politico, and Anthony Moor, deputy managing editor/interactive of Dallas Morning News, will take up the positions.

The appointments were made ‘to reach out to news executives beyond the group’s print newspaper roots‘, an ASNE announcement said.

The addition of web editors to the association’s board is one of many recent changes by the ASNE towards a more digital outlook. In April this year the body changed ‘Newspaper’ for ‘News’ in its name.

Monocle to launch daily Monocolumn online

Monocle will next week debut its new ‘Monocolumn’, a daily online report, featuring news, comment and opinion on global affairs, business, culture, and design.

Sponsored by Blackberry, this new venture will be available every day from 12.00pm (CET) on September 17 via monocle.com.  The online column builds on Monocle’s existing publications, which include an audio broadcast, The Monocle Weekly, and Monocle magazine currently published 10 times a year.

The Monocolumn will be free to access – in contrast to the rest of the site’s content, which can only be viewed in full as part of a £75-a-year subscription.

“We’re excited to be offering the full spectrum of news delivery, in monthly, weekly and now daily installments,” Monocle founder and editor-in-chief, Tyler Brûlé said in a press release.

The first edition of the Monocolumn will feature an introduction by Brûlé.

#FollowJourn: @craigmcginty/online publisher

#FollowJourn: Craig McGinty

Who? Publisher for This French Life.

What? A journalist with a wide variety of experience in daily newspapers, breaking news websites and public relations. McGinty was formerly editor of the Lancashire Evening Telegraph’s website thisislancashire.co.uk and now runs a website in France.

Where? @craigmcginty

Contact? craig [at] thisfrenchlife.com

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Reporter’s guide to multimedia proficiency – now available for download in PDF

Mindy McAdams’ comprehensive guide to multimedia proficiency is now available to download in PDF from her website.

The 42-page document is fully linked and usable online in most web browsers, Adobe Reader, or in Preview on the Mac OS, so there’s no need to waste trees in order to read it.

McAdams has licenced the entire document  under the Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 United States License so users are free to share, distribute, reuse and even remix it, in line with the CC conditions.

The booklet comes straight from a series of 15 blog posts, written as guidance to those who want to transform themselves into multimedia journalists. Her succinct guide includes tips on blogging, audio interviews, podcasts, photography, and video.