How Storify can curate social media for journalists
Using Storify to tell stories in the digital age.
- Facebook can be used to find sources and trawl for stories. It can also be used to create an entire story. In 2010, the Washington Post created a story entirely out of Facebook updates. It was, and still is, one of the most affecting pieces I have ever read. Click on the link below.
A Facebook story | A mother's joy and a family's sorrowShana Greatman Swers's life was captured on her Facebook wall with posts, pictures, status updates, and messages from friends. They tell the story of her son Isaac's birth, and the devastating struggles that followed.- And then, along came a start-up called Storify which gives all of us the power to create stories using elements from across the web.
- What can Storify do for me?It lets you post updates from Twitter, Facebook, Flickr, YouTube, Google and RSS feeds. It also embeds urls so you can create dynamic stories on the fly. Storify CEO Burt Herman is a former AP correspondent. He says Storify is a 21st century version of that, well, storied wire service
- On Friday Feb. 11 Twitter users posted some 33,000 Egypt-related tweets an hour. It was information overload. This is where Storify helped news consumers cut through the noise. Click on the links below to see how ABC News in Australia, CBC News in Canada and the Washington Post, (in well, Washington!) used Storify in the ways we discussed in class.
Mubarak resignsEgypt has erupted into a cacophony of celebration on the news that president Hosni Mubarak has bowed to demands that he resign.
Social media: Cleaning up in EgyptThousands of people remained in Cairo's Tahrir Square on Saturday morning after ousted president Hosni Mubarak announced his resignation the previous evening. Many anti-government protesters have begun to clean up after weeks of demonstrations.
World leaders react to Mubarak's resignationEgypt Today is a free and proud nation. God bless - Mohamed ElBaradei, Nobel Peace Prize laureate and former director general of the International Atomic Energy Agency #Egypt takes the Arab world into a new era .. Let's make it a better one - Khalid Alkhalifa, foreign minister, Bahrain (via NYT) Congratulations to the Egyptian people. And we hope that a system meeting the expectations of the Egyptian people will emerge - Ahmet Davutoglu, foreign affairs minister, Turkey (via NYT) Egypt is a strong state and the continuity of the Egyptian institutions is of crucial importance. Egypt did it w...- More uses for StorifyStorify can also help highlight the difference in reactions from people or parties on certain issues. Look at the way this story was put together about the different reactions from mayors Michael Bloomberg and Cory Booker after #snowmageddon.
Bloomberg vs. Booker: The mayoral dig-out tweetsA comparison of the tweets of NYC mayor Michael Bloomberg and Newark, N.J. mayor Cory Booker during the dig out from the December 2010 blizzard.- And then of course, this post was put together by using Storify! Storify is in limited beta at the moment but you can request a key at the main site. But remember, you need a story idea to create a successful Storify. A selection of elements is just a selection of elements. It's the curation and reporting that makes it a story.
