Presentation to ESCACC, Barcelona, 2010

1. 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

3. New information,
new journalists
1. Social networks, RSS and data
2. Passive-aggressive newsgathering
3. Looking forward

5. New types of
information

7. New types of
journalist

8. link

9. link

10. New
processes

11. http://www.buzzmachine.com/2009/06/07/processjournalism/

12. RSS

13. Why?
Speed
Serendipity
Flexibility

15. What sites have RSS?
• News sites
• Blogs
• Facebook, MySpace etc.
• Flickr (tags, comments, friends and
groups only)
• YouTube, Vimeo, etc.
• Twitter
• Delicious, Digg, etc.

16. 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

17. Other useful RSS tools
• Page2RSS.com
• Feedburner
• Google Docs
• Wikis
• Mailing lists with RSS feeds
• Yahoo! Pipes

18. link

22. Get social

23. Why?
Leads
Contributors
Distribution

26. Finding people online
• Use sites’ own search engines
• Openbook
• Boardreader
• Peoplesearch: yoName, Pipl, Yasni,
Zoominfo

27. 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

28. link

30. Questions/br
eak.

31. 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