Paul Bradshaw
City University, London and Birmingham City
University
Publisher, Online Journalism Blog
Founder, Help Me Investigate.com
New information,
new journalists
Barcelona, ESCACC, October 2010
New information,
new journalists
1. Social networks, RSS and data
2. Passive-aggressive newsgathering
3. Looking forward
New types of
information
New types of
journalist
link
link
New
processes
http://www.buzzmachine.com/2009/06/07/processjournalism/
RSS
Why?
Speed
Serendipity
Flexibility
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?
Leads
Contributors
Distribution
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/br
eak.
Delicious.com/paulb/barc10
Twitter.com/paulbradshaw
Linkedin.com/in/onlinejournalist
Slideshare.net/onlinejournalist
Paul Bradshaw
City University, London and Birmingham City
University
Publisher, Online Journalism Blog
Founder, Help Me Investigate.com

New information for new journalists pt1: RSS & social networks