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Liveblogging and mobile journalism
This document discusses best practices for live mobile journalism. It covers three main themes: events and rolling journalism, mobile journalism kit and infrastructure, and verification, ethics and law. It provides tips for live reporting like using hashtags, engaging multiple senses and media, quoting sources, and tweeting when things change. It also discusses choosing streaming platforms, building mobile kits with the right hardware and software, establishing systems and habits, and verifying information from multiple sources while maintaining transparency and adhering to privacy and broadcast laws.
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- 2. 5: Live andmobile JOM0845 Online Journalism
- 3. 3 themes • Eventsand rolling journalism • Kit and infrastructure • Verification, ethics and law
- 4. "The Continuous NewsDesk is busier than ever with stories coming in all day from various desks. The sports editors, when they hear about a big trade, are pushing the reporters to file quickly and sending that story to CND. All of the desks are now doing that to some extent, and it’s being done more often, with more stories, every week.”." - Editors Weblog, 2007
- 5. “The adrenaline wasrunning by now. So I turned [the flash] on and took five pictures. I realised they were important and I saw another guy shooting video on his phone. “So I got him into a taxi and we went back to AP’s offices in Camden.” - Matt Dunham, AP, in The Guardian
- 7. Events and rolling reporting Adding value
- 8. Video: live multiplatformelection coverage (PBS) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IQrH1OuhPjk
- 9. "We increased thereach of the NewsHour's live-stream by having it hosted elsewhere including the Sunlight Foundation and Huffington Post. We also hosted a map with live AP election data on our site and combined it with our map-centric Patchwork Nation collaboration. We used CoveritLive to power a live-blog of results, analysis and reports from the field. Extra, the NewsHour's site for students and teachers, solicited opinion pieces. "Many of the tools we experimented with to cover the 2008 election -- Google Docs, Twitter, Facebook -- have since matured as newsroom resources. Except for a few momentary hiccups, Twitter was as stable as we could have hoped on Election Day." - Dave Gustafson, PBS
- 10. "On election night,more than a dozen NewsHour staffers worked in the same [Google] document in real-time -- filing reports from the field and transcribing quotes from NewsHour analysts and notable guests on other networks. "When [Mike] typed a pound sign (#), that signaled the paragraph was ready and I immediately pasted it into CoveritLive. "In a different spreadsheet, staff kept track of which races were called by other news organizations and when. We also used the embedded chat feature in Google Docs to communicate while editing and adding information." - Dave Gustafson, PBS
- 11. I venture tobet that we were the only network last night with an election graphics system running in Google Chrome. Thanks to our partners at Ustream posting a giant promotion on their home page for a full day our election live- stream garnered more than 250,000 views. We also notified our 73,000 iPhone app users of our special coverage plans. Our app download traffic tripled. As for Facebook, we were blown away by the breaking news engagement we got. It has us reconsidering that strategy. A separate two-day effort targeting NewsHour ads on Facebook pages of specific political campaigns grew our fans about 7.3 percent in that short period.
- 12. Same choices, butfaster. • Twitter stream? • Liveblogging? • Photo updates and gallery? • Streaming video? • Google map?
- 13. Where is theneed? • Document? • Aggregate? • Analyse? • Enrich? • Verify?
- 14. Live tweeting tips • Use existing hashtag(s) - or make one • Engage all the senses - and media • Use direct quotes - or RT them • Write as if an intro summing up • Tweet when things change
- 15. Streaming tips • Test, prepare, recce, schedule • Auto-tweet upon streaming • Steady camera • Narrate if sound is not close
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- 18. Events: lead up •Talk to the community, recruit contributors, set up lists, groups, photo pools, tags etc. • Cover the lead up on multiple platforms • Where might you get video, photo, audio? • SEO/SMO - key phrases, ideas • What will the community need? • Do what you do best, link to the rest
- 19. Tactics of repression •Some regimes throttle broadband during protests • Can also close parts of mobile phone network • E.g. Iran, 2009; Myanmar, 2007
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- 21. Too busy onsocial media http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O8g3AFnT_Hk
- 22. Kit: hardware • Smartphone with good data plan • Flip or Kodak Zi8, etc. (not HD) • Digital dictaphone/Zoom • Portable mic and spoffle • Gorillapod or tripod • Bluetooth keyboard
- 24. Kit: power &connectivity • Batteries - including phone • Mifi unit (also tethering & Joikuspot) • Extra SIM cards - EyeFi? • Free memory - and extra cards • Extension lead & chargers • Power gorilla, solar charger
- 25. Kit: software • CoverItLive, Posterous • Qik, Bambuser, Ustream, Twitcam • Shozu, Pixelpipe, Ping • Twitvid, Twitpic, Flickr NOT Plixi • Evernote, Springpad, Dragon, Catch Notes • GeoTag, PlaceTagger, GeoLogTag • Google Maps, Storify, Audioboo
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- 27. Systems and habits • Network: publish & distribute (RSS) • Contacts & website emails • Wifi map, 3G recce • Scheduled post with embedded viewer • Preparing users, tags, groups etc. • Geotagging • Plans B, C and Z - editing, streaming, etc.
- 28. A mobile mindset •Be 'always-on' and catch the moment. Share first, report later. • Try new tools & apps and integrate • Establish yourself in a network • Look with a MoJo's eye - recce places, rehearse, prepare.
- 29. See how it'sdone • @documentally • @ruskin147 • @alisongow • @paullewis • @adamwestbrook • @ed_walker86 • @acarvin
- 30. Workshop Prepare mobilereporting for covering a live event. Identify: - Key people - Key platforms - Key themes, terms etc. - Preparation needed
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- 32. "People shouldn't seethis as a Twitter mistake; rather it was a reporting mistake that could have occurred on any platform." - Andy Carvin, NPR
- 34. Level 1: Content Is it too good to be true? Bait? Style and personality Can you verify each fact elsewhere? Frequency and recency Cloning and airbrushing
- 35. Level 2: Context How long has the account existed? Who did they first follow? Who followed them first? Who has spoken to/about them online? Correlation with other identities? (Identify) Tools: PeerIndex, Klout. Speak to them.
- 39. Level 3: Technology Domain extension - .gov? Check Whois records Last updated Pages linking to: Archives and caches; history & discussion Source code
- 41. Ethics Isdeleting an incorrect tweet after the fact a lack of transparency? Live tweeting: spammy? Taste & graphic nature: Neda Non-declaration (Mayhill Fowler)
- 42. Law Streaming =broadcast (apologise), archived = publication (edit) Privacy and trespass
- 43. Links Delicious.com/paulb/cityoj06 Delicious.com/paulb/mobile Dan Gillmor andStephen Quinn ebooks
- 44. Lab Find events Create contentbuilding up to that event Plan to cover the event live • Who could you interview? • Where could you add value? • What can you research?