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- 1. Covid 19 reporting, Newsgathering and mentoring the social web summarizing a webinar hosted by “First draftnews.org”. by Mohamed Aboeta
- 3. Two main parts - Fundamentals of online newsgathering - Mentoring platforms
- 4. The first part: Fundamentals of online newsgathering What you are looking for?
- 5. 1- Sources • they are the people and associations you call to get information from. • like (doctors-health officials-academics- influencers)
- 6. 2- Keywords • When you are looking for what the people are saying. • You might be looking for items like (self isolation- new treatments-pandemic-hash tags)
- 7. Don’t forget: • Both lead to each other. Keywords can get you news sources and news sources can lead you to keywords.
- 8. But how people talk online? How they type?
- 9. • Some using slangs-some informal phrases- check their comments to decide the words used. • Do not forget to let your bias away When covering an international news story, It is highly recommended to have a list of the keywords in every available language. The list is what kind or words and hash tags the people might type online. .
- 10. Consider this important: • Some do not spell words right. You are dealing with world based platforms and different communities. • Some politicians also do mistakes • Consider searching typing the same spelling used online by ordinary people
- 11. How to handle that? • Use Boolean search (to use a combination of keywords and the three main Boolean operators AND,OR and NOT). • Coronavirus not self isolation or I am and covid 19 • use covid or coronavirus
- 12. Follwerwonk
- 13. followewonk - Free online tool which you use to find experts on all fields. You can input the word “pandemic” and it get you all the accounts that have this word in their bio. - You can arrange them by tweets, dates and specializations.
- 15. LinkedIn
- 16. • You can search about accounts of experts- people who work in certain organization you need. • You can connect and follow them. you can filter the results to have specific results.
- 18. Twitter
- 19. • Tweet deck • To search news sources and combine keywords and to have columns
- 21. Crowdtangle
- 22. • To find experts and news sources. You can use Boolean search to have multiple results. Separate words to get more options. • In light of coronavirus they have a new search tool to better help journalists.
- 23. Crowdtangle • It has a free link checker- you can add it to your browsers. It can search for sources from the keywords you type. It can check the link and show you if the content is accurate and whether it is still shared. Scroll down to see more accurate shared content.
- 25. The second part Monitoring digital platforms
- 26. Your tools to monitor effectively?
- 27. tweetdeck • Set up your coloumns, lists and keywords • The results are numerous • You can monitor several columns simultaneously
- 28. Setting a list
- 29. crowdtangle
- 30. crowdtangle • At the top of the dashboard • Ex: following a list of content du to the time • Ex: set the filter to see which piece of content generated •
- 31. Alerts • In crowdtangle: • You can seta an alert • How this content performing better? It usually send you a mail.
- 32. Google Alerts • Type your prefered keywords to follow. • Enter your email address • Receive the alerts of anything being published on the topic.
- 33. Creating alert for multimedia journalism conference to my mail
- 34. picbabun • Help find the hashtags relating to a keyword and following this hashtags. • Identify relevent sourcse by showing different acount • Build lists of the sources.
- 35. Pritorising results • If interested in a topic, you can priotrise to have a more reaction and strong results • Anger and shock reactions to cover better.
- 36. Livedisplay • To track columns and results • More powerful tool
- 38. trackreddit • To monitor reedit specifically • Create a search by entering a keyword • the tool will show the post • Identify relevent communities
- 39. map.snapchat.com • To monitor snapchat stories threw searching speciifc locations • How different nations react to a specific topic.
- 40. Results from Egypt location