new information for new journalists pt1: rss & social networks
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Paul BradshawCity University, London and Birmingham City UniversityPublisher, Online Journalism BlogFounder, Help Me Investigate.com
New information, new journalistsBarcelona, ESCACC, October 2010
New information, new journalists
1. Social networks, RSS and data2. Passive-aggressive newsgathering3. Looking forward
New types of information
New types of journalist
New processes
http://www.buzzmachine.com/2009/06/07/processjournalism/
RSS
Why?
SpeedSerendipityFlexibility
What sites have RSS?
• News sites• Blogs• Facebook, MySpace etc.• Flickr (tags, comments, friends and
groups only)• YouTube, Vimeo, etc.• Twitter• Delicious, Digg, etc.
Searches by RSS
• Google News Search, Yahoo News• Technorati, icerocket, ljseek• Search.Twitter.com, twitterlocal.net• Flickr (via Yahoo! Pipes)• video.google.com, YouTube • Delicious, Digg, Propeller, Reddit• Boardreader• Add mloovi
Other useful RSS tools
• Page2RSS.com• Feedburner• Google Docs• Wikis• Mailing lists with RSS feeds• Yahoo! Pipes
link
Get social
Why?
LeadsContributorsDistribution
Finding people online
• Use sites’ own search engines• Openbook• Boardreader• Peoplesearch: yoName, Pipl, Yasni,
Zoominfo
Verifying information on social media
• Domain, frequency & recency of update, history
• Too good to be true? Bait for RT?• Style and personality• Who’s following/friends? Who are they
following? Who was first?• Messages to/about them• Presences elsewhere on social media• Pages linking to them• Internet archive and caches• Source code
link
Questions/break.
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Paul BradshawCity University, London and Birmingham City UniversityPublisher, Online Journalism BlogFounder, Help Me Investigate.com