Here's What Happened At Occupy The News: A Movement And The Media
How do you verify social media news tips? How do you create unique content with social media? Journalists, citizen journalists, and social media types gathered Thursday night at Storify's offices in San Francisco for Occupy The News: A Movement And The Media. Here's how it unfolded.
- I told you it was packed. Great event. Thanks to all for coming #occupythenews @ Storify HQ t.co/c9Ll9yQh
- On Thursday night, seven journalists covering Occupy Oakland with new media tools gathered at Storify's San Francisco offices to tell a sellout crowd of 100 how they have covered the movement, what tools they've used, and where they see the movement and the media around it headed next.
Here is the lineup of panelists:
- Deborah Petersen, senior editor, mobile & social media, San Jose Mercury News/Bay Area News Group- Tasneem Raja, digital interactive editor, Mother Jones- Angela Woodall, staff reporter, Oakland Tribune
- Ellen Cushing, staff writer, web editor, and resident social-media obsessive, East Bay Express
- Susan Mernit, Editor/Publisher, Oakland Local
- Carly Schwartz, San Francisco Editor, The Huffington Post- Ian Hill, social media specialist, KQED NewsHere is a YouTube video of the presenters' part of the program:- Audience members and panelists discussed verification of facts on lightning-fast social media. Ian Hill of KQED News suggested that fact-checking still means picking up the phone and relying on common sense.
People at #OccupyTheNews questioning how to verify he news are forgetting It's only true if the right person says so.
How to verify tweets tho? Usually editors wait to confirm reports before posting them, sometimes they have to trust the crowd #occupythenews
Old-school, in a good way! @tasneemraja of @motherjones says she gets on the phone with her reporters working on Storifys. #occupythenews- "if something feels wrong in the pit d your stomach, don't do it." @ianhillmedia #OccupyTheNews @Storify
- Another topic of intense discussion was: Does reporting with social media mean everyone is drawing content from the same pool? Panelists responded that they try to tailor their content to what their audiences want. That sparked a debate over how journalists can know that.
Good audience question: How do journalists produce distinct content if they're all drawing from same social media feeds? #occupythenews
Can journalists produce distinct content drawing from same feeds? Easier with many feeds compared with 1 or 2 trad newswires #occupythenews- Panelists say their news orgs produce distinct content by focusing on what THEIR readers want & seek. (I want more on this.) #occupythenews
- Great turnout at tonight's @Storify #occupythenews event. Look for live stream on our site tomorrow! t.co/cc5F88bb
- Even as we were meeting, a new use case for Storify popped up: How to chronicle the arrests of Occupy journalists via Storify.
I just added 3 new arrests to my list of journalist arrests at Occupy events nationwide: bit.ly/qu77Dn #occupythenews
Here's something interesting making the rounds today: reports of journos arrested during #ows movement: bit.ly/uvMgfC via @jcstearns
Check out how Storify is being used to chronicle arrest of journalists during Occupy protests bit.ly/uvMgfC- Ian Hill of KQED News urged journalists in the Bay Area to make use of local startups to expand their tool kits.
#occupythenews great point from @ianhillmedia: SF journos have incredible resource in local start-ups like @Storify and @tackable
