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Facebook publishes best practice guide for journalists
'Media on Facebook', which launched yesterday, will highlight case studies and research of interest to news outlets
Posted by Sarah Marshall on 03/05/13How journalists are using Facebook's new live Q&A feature
Facebook is rolling out a feature that lets journalists host live chats on pages or on profiles with more than 10,000 followers
Posted by Sarah Marshall on 03/05/13NewsWhip launches email alerts to track news in your niche
NewsWhip Spike surfaces 'socially-powered news, using the crowd to filter the big stories'
Posted by Sarah Marshall on 01/05/13New IP rules 'invert normal operation of copyright'
Commercial use of orphan works and extended collective licensing strongly opposed by photographers
Posted by Alastair Reid on 01/05/13#ijf13: Five tips for journalists on smart social media use
Key pointers shared by a panel at the International Journalism Festival on how journalists and news brands can use social media more effectively
Posted by Rachel McAthy on 29/04/13How Glipho aims to make blogging more social
By integrating social media sites with blogs in one online location, this new platform can be a hub for bloggers and aspiring journalists alike
Posted by Alastair Reid on 25/04/13Storify launches paid-for option aimed at journalists
Journalists will be guaranteed ad-free Storify stories for £5.30 a month
Posted by Sarah Marshall on 24/04/13Storify launches paid-for option for publishers
Storify VIP offers news outlets a premium service, with a liveblogging feature and the ability to add posts, pictures and comments from their own site to Storify stories
Posted by Sarah Marshall on 02/04/13How ProPublica is experimenting with Reddit
Following the introduction of its Get Involved page, ProPublica has turned to Reddit to encourage open discussion around the 'influx of ideas'
Posted by Rachel McAthy on 27/03/136 lessons from BuzzFeed as it launches in the UK
BuzzFeed founder Jonah Peretti explains the 'Paris cafe' approach to publishing, providing political scoops as well as stories for the 'bored at work'
Posted by Sarah Marshall on 25/03/13ITV News and a year of 'stream' storytelling online
Traffic results reported for the site in January show an annual increase in unique browsers of 518 per cent
Posted by Rachel McAthy on 20/03/13Social list building tool Listly launches new version
Journalists can use Listly to build lists with the community and offers social features such as item-specific commenting and a voting system to drive engagement
Posted by Rachel McAthy on 18/03/13Facebook's Vadim Lavrusik to deliver news:rewired keynote
Facebook's journalism programme manager will give a practical presentation at the digital journalism conference on 19 April
Posted by Sarah Marshall on 05/03/13Tool of the week for journalists: TweetDeck - for its new column filter
TweetDeck has added column search functionality to its web and Chrome apps
Posted by Sarah Marshall on 22/02/13FT launches anniversary Tumblr to tell 'inside story'
The Financial Times has produced an "anniversary hub" of digital content online, including a Tumblr of staff memories and an interactive timeline of historical events
Posted by Rachel McAthy on 13/02/13WSJ uses Vine to report on New York Fashion Week
Social media ideas and innovations: Another example of how Twitter's new micro-video app is being used by reporters
Posted by Sarah Marshall on 08/02/13App of the week for journalists: Neatly, for tidying your Twitter timeline into topics
A Twitter client that organises your Twitter timeline into topics
Posted by Sarah Marshall on 06/02/13Visual Revenue launches social dashboard
The tools give recommendations to social media editors on when a post will best resonate with, and engage, the audience
Posted by Sarah Marshall on 05/02/13Tool of the week for journalists: Engagio, for managing social via Gmail
Engagio allows you to track conversations you are having on social networks, including Twitter, LinkedIn and Facebook, from your Gmail inbox
Posted by Sarah Marshall on 24/01/13Next >
#Tip: Social media mistakes journalists make in a crisis
Advice for journalists using social media during crises
Posted by Alastair Reid on 16 April 2013#Tip: Facebook to introduce comment replies and more
Facebook this week announced it would be introducing new features for comments which will, according to a post by journalism programme manager Vadim Lavrusik, enable journalists to “reply directly to comments left on your Page content and start conversation threads”. Lavrusik says discussions will also be “re-ordered by relevance to viewers” and those considered the most [...]
Posted by Rachel McAthy on 27 March 2013#Tip: Pointers for growing your Twitter following
Tips for growing Twitter following
Posted by Rachel McAthy on 18 March 2013Beet.TV: The New York Times, real-time advertising and Twitter trending data
Beet.TV has an interesting video with Michael Zimbalist, vice president for research & development, and operations at the New York Times, in which he discusses a new advertising tool called Spark which utilises the Times’s data on stories trending on social media. According to Beet.TV the tool “serves display advertising into stories as they are [...]
Posted by Rachel McAthy on 19 February 2013Hurricane Sandy and verification: 4 key takeaways from Storyful Hangout
A look at the four main points which came out of a Google+ Hangout, hosted by Storyful on the subject of verification during Hurricane Sandy
Posted by Rob Grant on 11 December 2012#Tip of the day for journalists: How to avoid errors on social media when covering election
On Poynter Mallary Jean Tenore has produced a list of six mistakes journalists should try to avoid making when covering the election, with pointers on how to try and protect themselves against them. These include not being fooled by fake accounts or images, and also not “misinterpreting social media sentiment”. Here is the full list. [...]
Posted by Rachel McAthy on 6 November 2012#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 [...]
Posted by Rachel McAthy on 15 October 2012#Tip of the day for journalists - newsgathering with social media
Social media director for the Wall Street Journal Liz Heron has Storified some of the responses she received after posting a tweet a few days ago asking for the “#1 tip for social media newsgathering”. The resulting Storify highlights some of the key pointers shared, such as verification and building trust with sources, as well [...]
Posted by Rachel McAthy on 9 October 2012#Tip of the day for journalists: Twitter's tips for 'best practice'
Twitter's tips for best practice for journalists
Posted by Rachel McAthy on 26 September 2012Study: Fewer UK journalists feel social media improves productivity in 2012 than in 2011
An annual study into how UK journalists feel social media impacts on their work was announced this week by Canterbury Christ Church University and public relations and media services outlet Cision. The report’s findings are based on 769 responses from UK journalists. According to a release from the university the study found an “increasing number [...]
Posted by Rachel McAthy on 19 September 2012#Tip of the day for journalists: making more of LinkedIn
Mashable has a post featuring five tips for journalists, from LinkedIn’s senior manager for corporate communications Krista Canfield, on not making “mistakes” on LinkedIn which may hinder their ability to use the platform to find stories as well as work. See the full post here. Earlier this year Journalism.co.uk produced a list of LinkedIn tips [...]
Posted by Rachel McAthy on 14 September 2012#wef12: Why news outlets must embrace a participatory culture
Al Jazeera's Riyaad Minty and Mark Little's Storyful on why news outlets must understand the relationship between news reporting and social media
Posted by Rachel McAthy on 4 September 2012#Podcast - What journalists should know about App.net
A look at Twitter-like service App.net
Posted by Sarah Marshall on 31 August 2012#Tip of the day from Journalism.co.uk - adding interest lists on Facebook
Journalists can subscribe to interest lists in Facebook to follow social sharing around a certain topic. The system will also notify a user when there are updates they may wish to see within lists subscribed too, or users can create their own lists. Hatip: The Facebook + Journalists page, which is itself a great source [...]
Posted by Rachel McAthy on 13 August 2012#Tip of the day from Journalism.co.uk - Ways to flag up breaking news on Twitter
A look at the different ways news outlets flag up to their followers about the nature of the content they are tweeting, in this case breaking news but this could also relate to video or photos, for example
Posted by Rachel McAthy on 30 July 2012#Podcast - Tumblr lessons from NME and The Times
How news NME and The Times are experimenting with Tumblr
Posted by Sarah Marshall on 20 July 2012#Tip of the day from Journalism.co.uk - 11 pointers on Facebook pages
Mashable's '11 things you don't know about Facebook pages'
Posted by Sarah Marshall on 20 July 2012Guardian US, #smarttakes and 'pop-up aggregation'
The Guardian's US operation announces the launch of a new socially-driven aggregation series called #smarttakes
Posted by Rachel McAthy on 19 July 2012#Tip of the day from Journalism.co.uk - Twitter techniques for journalists
Steve Buttry, director of community engagement and social media for Digital First Media in the US starts a series of posts looking at specific techniques for using Twitter, aimed at journalists, starting with search
Posted by Rachel McAthy on 12 July 2012#Tip of the day from Journalism.co.uk - Storify's tips for using platform during Olympics
Storify outlines five ways to use the platform to cover the Olympics in London this year
Posted by Rachel McAthy on 29 June 2012
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Twitter tips: How @Guardian reached 1m followers
Community manager at the Guardian Laura Oliver explains how the Guardian's flagship Twitter account is managed and shares her tips on community building
Posted by Sarah Marshall on 16/05/13