Finding stories by news gathering and monitoring on social web

1. FINDING STORIES BY NEWSGATHERING AND
MONITORING ON SOCIAL WEB
YASMIN RAMADAN

2. EFFECTIVE USE OF SEARCH ENGINES CAN HELP ON :
• Looking for new stories
Looking
• web for more evidence to
support investigation
Investigating
• Keywords and hashtags
for monitoring operation
Digging up

3. FUNDAMENTALS OF ONLINE NEWS
GATHERING
online news gathering is a
process of two main parts
Sources
Keywords

4. FUNDAMENTALS OF ONLINE NEWS GATHERING
sources: we know where
the information will
from but not what form
will it take
Keywords: we know what
form the information will
take but not where it will
come from

5. SOURCES AND KEYWORDS
Sources Lead to
keywords and vice versa

6. FIND KEYWORDS RELEVANT TO YOUR
TOPIC YOU NEED TO VERIFY
What kind of Language people using when
online some communities uses slang swear
words and acronyms , you need to think of
community u want to tap in to
it is useful to use spreadsheet for the most
relevant keywords and sources to get back to.

7. ISSUE WITH HASHTAG MISSPELLINGS
• you can use asterix like Coron* or Cov* to make
sure you get all the keywords/hashtags even with
misspellings in it.

8. BOOLEAN OPERATORS
• They connect your search words together to
either narrow or broaden your set of results :
• AND : Return Results with all specified terms
• OR: Return Results with any specified terms
• Not: Return Results without specified terms

9. FINDING SOURCES
• What is the better way ?
• Searching using Site:
twitter.com/*/lists “search term”
• Followerwonk
• LinkedIn
• Tweetdeck
• Crowdtangle search

10. FOLLOWERWONK
• Tool to find experts in a certain topics , for
example people that have pandemic in their bio.

11. LINKEDIN
• LinkedIn finding experts or people working in
organizations that are related to the search
term. You can do a content search for the
topic on the home page to find information
on a certain topic. There is filters by location
or industry or language

12. TWEETDECK
• Tweetdeck it is a great tool for putting your
search , compiling your keywords and search
for them at the same time , you can also ad
in new search strings in new columns to find
new and different resources.
• Using the filtering icon you can filter column
results by engagement,

13. CROWD TANGLE
• Crowd tangle it is a tool that can
facilitate finding resources by
using Boolean search , you can
use AND OR and NOT and
separate the search words by
commas.

14. CROWD TANGLE
• They have also a search tool ,
where you can search for
rumours , narratives and trends

15. CROWD TANGLE
• also there is the link checker tool
( Browser Extension) , it examines
who is sharing this link and
where , you can see this link is
being shared in what pages or
groups and how exactly it was
shared.

16. MONITORING TOOLS
• Tweetdeck
• Crowdtangle
• Alerts
• Picpanzee open source
• Track redit
• Snap map
• First draft toolkit

17. TWEETDECK FILTERS
• Filtering Options in Tweetdeck
• Using the filtering icon you can
filter column results by
engagement,

18. CROWDTANGLE FILTERS
• Filtering options varies you can use the most recent
option , yet when you are starting your day and you
want to check what has trended while you were
offline for few hours you can use the total
interactions filter. If there is a certain topic that you
want to check and see the one with the most
interactions you can use the overperforming filter.
• You can use weights option to prioritize a certain
reaction to posts on certain topics to , for instance
prioritize most shares or the angry reaction.

19. ALERTS
• Crowdtangle Alerts Viral Alert
• Google Alerts is similar alert service that can be
sent on the email

20. PICPANZEE (PICBABUN)
• find the most viral hashtags in
relation to the key search term
and monitor those hashtags

21. TRACKREDDIT
• Monitoring Reddit

22. SNAP MAP
• To monitor Snapchat , where are the trending
locations on certain topics

23. NOTES
Crowdtangle free for Journalists & owned by Meta
(WHOIS ) Tool to find website owner
Coping with information overkill by limiting sources and keywords and working
in intervals