Tool of the week for journalists: Geofeedia, to locate real-time photos, videos and tweets
A great new tool that can help journalists verify breaking news stories
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Tool of the week:
What is it?
A tool that allows you to search for a location and find geolocated tweets, photos and videos.
How is it of use to journalists?
This tool offers potential for journalists faced with verifying a breaking news story. Search for a postcode, country, school or sporting stadium and you can see geolocated social media content posted on Twitter, Instagram, Picasa, Flickr and YouTube.
Imagine hearing reports of a fire. With Geofeedia you could enter the address and see what images, videos and tweets are being shared on social media. <img alt="" class="alignnone size-full wp-image-44970" height="536" src="?cmd=ShowAsset&assetID=43915&nosurround=true&fakeExtension=.jpg" title="Geofeedia" width="540"> Hat tip: Poynter , which has reported that Geofeedia came out of private beta earlier this week.
Find out more about verification by reading this Journalism.co.uk guide .
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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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