News Reporting and Social Media Verification #ijf12
A #IJF12 panel with Andy Carvin (Npr), Matthew Eltringham (BBC College of Journalism), Julien Pain (France 24), Bernardo Parrella (Global Voices), Nicola Bruno (Effecinque)
- Online news outlets are integrating collaborative tools and strategies to enlarge or diversify their every-day production. What is the role of social media curation and verification in providing a broader context? Can this approach trigger better news reporting and a more global conversation?
News reporting and social media curationNews reporting and social media curation The Arab Spring and similar events have revealed the importance of social media in any informati...- SPEAKERS
- Nicola Bruno is the co-founder of Effecinque and author of the RISJ Paper "Tweet First, Verify Later?"
Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism / Tweet first, verify later? New Fellow's paper onlineNicola Bruno, an Italian journalist specialising in digital media and technology and its effect on journalism, has written a fascinating ...- Andy Carvin is National Public Radio's senior product manager for online communities. He first came to wider prominence by covering the Tunisian revolution on Twitter in late 2010.
Andy CarvinNational Public Radio Andy Carvin is National Public Radio's senior product manager for online communities. He first came to wider promin...- Matthew Eltringham is the founding editor of the BBC's UGC Hub
BBC College of Journalism - AboutOxford University Press has partnered with the BBC to distribute the BBC College of Journalism website - making the learning and developm...- Julien Pain is in charge of The Observers, a participative journalism project launched in 2007 by France 24
- Bernardo Parrella is the editor of Global Voices Italia
Global Voices in Italiano · Post sui citizen media da ogni parte del ...Global Voices è una rete internazionale di cittadini che informano tramite i social media e il giornalismo partecipativo, traducendone ...- INFORMATION CASCADE & THE BUTTERFLY EFFECT
- According to Guardian's Paul Lewis, social media can help journalists:1) Finding people - crowdsourcing the pubic for information on the whereabouts of witnesses or other key figures in a story;2) People who self-publish – activists (holding regimes to account), bloggers or anyone in need of a voice who would otherwise not be given a voice;3) Big events – the London riots was an excellent example of how journalists could harness the power of Twitter to follow leads and chase down stories. The ensuing chaos was too big and too fast-moving for journalists to manage on their own;4) The butterfly effect – a small action creating a ripple effect. It has to be a tweet containing very valuable information, which can be hard with 140 characters.
Two worlds collide: Twitter, the butterfly effect and the future of Journalism"Whether it's the exposing of super injunctions, Middle Eastern revolutions or the Occupy movement, social media is having an ever more s...- RUMORS, HOAXES, BOGUS
Riot rumours: how misinformation spread on Twitter during a time of crisisA period of unrest can provoke many untruths, an analysis of 2.6 million tweets suggests. But Twitter is adept at correcting misinformati...
The Twitter Death Epidemic | American Journalism ReviewFeb 28, 2012 ... The Twitter Death Epidemic. All of the bogus tweets about celebrity deaths underscore why it's silly to assert tha...
Twitter: Often first, not always right - CNN.comNews of the tragic death of Whitney Houston this weekend didn't appear first on television or mainstream news sites. Instead it was revea...'Rossella Urru è libera'. Ma non sarà così e il corto circuito tra twitter e mainstream diventa un dibattito e una riflessione tra giornalisti, blogger e netizen, cittadini che abitano la Rete.
- VERIFICATION
- Verification as a process or verification as a pre-condition of news gathering?
Storyful. " Inside Storyful - Storyful's verification processBritish writer Lynn Barber has scalped some formidable egos in her time. Laced with acerbic scrutiny, her interviews have become somethin...
