Tool of the week for journalists - Facebook Search
Search Facebook posts, photos, people, pages, groups and events without logging in
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Tool of the week:
What is it?
A tool that allows you to search Facebook without logging in
How is it of use to journalists?
Social media searches have become a key part of newsgathering process. This tool is a search engine for Facebook. It allows you to search if you are not logged in of if you don't have a Facebook account.
Based on Facebook's API, it allows you to search posts, photos, people, pages, groups and events. <img alt="" class="alignnone size-full wp-image-41813" height="235" src="?cmd=ShowAsset&assetID=43892&nosurround=true&fakeExtension=.jpg" title="Facebook-search" width="540"> As well as being useful for searching by keyword, it is also a good way to test to see if the page for your news site comes up in a search.
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Sarah Marshall is VP Audience Strategy at Condé Nast. She leads distribution and channel strategy globally. She is also the former technology editor for Journalism.co.uk (prior to it becoming JournalismUK)
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