The document discusses the changing media landscape and the core skills needed for digital newsrooms. It focuses on newsgathering using digital tools and non-traditional sources like social media, blogs, forums, and crowdsourcing. Reporters must manage information flow, build relationships with communities, and use tools to source, report on, and distribute stories in real-time while maintaining quality and adhering to legal and community guidelines. Keywords discussed include community, social media, and crowdsourcing.

1. The changing media
landscape
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Core skills
Newsgathering
Basic IT and internet skills
Awareness of online sites
Ability to re-version and re-purpose
finding own stories

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The process
Find a story
Research the story
Report on the story

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Sources
Digital equivalents
None-traditional sources
Think where !
Email
Blogs
Forums

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Social media
Updates and discussion
Real-time
Real time sourcing
Real -time reporting
Real-time pressures

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Sources of content
Social media content
Multimedia
Stories and experience
Source, Audience or publisher?
Real people

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Community
Community of interest
Community of geography
Audience focus
Location awareness

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Crowdsourcing
Distributed reporting
Open-source reporting
Citizen Journalism
Use the community as part of the process
Identify the tools to manage
Cultivate a relationship

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The (digital)process
Manage the flow of information
Access less ‘traditional sources’
Identify and ‘use’ communities
Use content generate by communities

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The (digital)process
Does quality and exclusivity suffer?
Build relationships with the communities we ‘use’
Have tools in place to manage
Don’t fall foul of the law
Don’t fall foul of the community

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keywords
Community
Social Media
Crowdsourcing

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Go forth and...
Check WEBct
MIP
Assignment Briefs
Skills tests

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