Presentation to student journalists at the CUNY Graduate School of Journalism (April 2012). Includes a description of Storyful, some areas on interest for studying journalism right now, some case studies of journalism students using social media to get jobs, and some top tips and tools.

1. Social journalism storyful style
CUNY // April 19 2012
Dr Claire Wardle

3. Today
 What is storyful?
 How we work
 The most interesting questions in social journalism
 Opportunities for new journalists

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news from noise

5. Storyful is the first news agency of social age
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6. The Founding Principle
Every News Event Creates a Community
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8. Storyful helps journalists discover
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9. Storyful helps journalists discover
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10. Storyful helps Journalists Verify
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12. She provides email and He agrees for footage to
phone number for her be used
manager and we run
formal verification checks
One search result was a press
release written by the owner of
Email proves that the the facebook page and
footage was not taken by included contact details
the owner of the facebook
page, but her manager
No contact details on the No contact details on work
facebook page but it did website but google search of
list place of work name and place of work
provided leads
Video found on a personal Advanced search on
page and location verified facebook
using google street view
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13. 43 minutes from
discovery of the video
to it being ready to be
used by clients
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14. Storyful helps journalists Verify
 Maps
 Contacts
 Translation
 Corroboration
 Permissions
 24 hour service
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16. Verification Steps
 The YouTube account listed Meulaboh as his hometown
 Several videos from Meulaboh were uploaded to the account in the six
months before April 11
 The first tweet of this YouTube video was issued by an affiliated
Twitter account, also based in Meulaboh, Aceh
 The Twitter user was actively tweeting from there in the weeks
preceding the earthquake
 The uploader's blog reported from the area
 We could establish a valid email address and two Indonesian
telephone numbers for the uploader
 Additional sources in the area reported that people were evacuating
 A shop awning fluttering in a corner of the video reads 'Meulaboh
Lagoon'
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18.  A previous video on the same YouTube account made
reference to an Olivia
 This Texan memorial page remembers Ross Churman who is
survived by son Sloan and Sarah Churman, and grand
daughter Olivia
 WhitePages.com lists Sloan and Sarah Churman as
associated people at an address in Burleson, Texas
 Sarah Churman's blog, in which she wrote a post on the
experience, beginning: "Well, got my implant activated today!
I’ve been nervous for days. Couldn’t sleep last night."
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19. Real-Time Examples (April 2012)
BOMB ALERT
We had some customers asking about a bomb alert on a flight (Istanbul-
JFK) that landed in Dublin yesterday. It quickly became apparent that it was
a false alarm, but we were able to talk to a guy on board, via Twitter, and he
revealed that the alarm was triggered when someone left their phone in the
toilet.
Felim McMahon
In-depth Reporter
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20. US POLITICS
In my case, I was using Twitter last night to monitor Occupy Philadelphia
protests outside a Romney Tea Party event.... Using advanced Twitter
search and "Philadelphia" as the location. This threw up some great tweets
about the stand-off that followed which in turn led to great UGC today. At the
time, reporters were inside and not reporting about the protests outside so
general Twitter searches/advanced searches were invaluable.
Aine Kerr
Political Editor
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21. MALI
I was able to connect with a Senegalese businessman who was visiting
Bamako and took photos of troops taking over the national radio station
from his hotel that happened to be across the street. I did this by
connecting with various sources on our existing list to find this new
source and his original photos that had been scraped. I had a Skype
conversation with him to figure out what was going on and put things in
context.
Mike Sefanov
Senior Editor
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22. KUWAIT – DARA
I found awesome video of the giant Kuwait tire fire (in World News
now) by cold searching 'fire' in twitter today, and then got
clearance for the vid and verified location, all through Twitter too.
Dara Healy
Curator
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23. Most interesting areas to study in journalism right now
 Activist journalism
 Collaborative journalism
 Hyperlocal
 The article vs the atom?
 Mobile
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24. http://wapo.st/syrianactivists
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25. Joseph Stashko
http://storify.com/josephstash/oslo-explosion
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26. Hannah Waldram
http://onlinejournalismblog.com/2010/07/15/the-new-online-journalists-1-hannah-waldram/
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27. Adam Westbrook (http://www.adamwestbrook.co.uk/)
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28. Making social media work for you: tools to try
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29. http://delicious.com/stacks/view/SaVTv5
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30. Thank You
claire.wardle@storyful.com
@cward1e
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