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Reporting with social media
This document provides tips for journalists on using social media for reporting. It discusses how social platforms like Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, YouTube, Foursquare, Google+, and niche tools can be used to find story ideas, crowdsource information, engage with sources, and join conversations on topics. It emphasizes verifying information from social media, identifying yourself professionally, and managing your time well across multiple platforms.
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- 1. Reporting with socialmedia Steve Buttry Everyday Health June 8, 2012
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- 3. What’s your socialstrategy?
- 4. Great for promotion,but also … • Great for reporting • Find story ideas • Crowdsource • Join the conversation (reply, retweet, ask questions)
- 5. • Many moreusers • Great for breaking • Much info private news • Tougher to search • Great real-time • Not as immediate search (less frequent • Engagement not as updates) intrusive • Engage, don’t • Hashtags help w/ intrude search, conversation
- 6. Personal vs. professionaluse • Separate accounts OK but not necessary • Always behave professionally, even on private accounts • Be personable on pro accounts • Presume boss will see all posts • Don’t bore pro audience
- 7. • Connect w/sources (balance, disclosure?) • Check pages of agencies, people on beat • Crowdsourcing (ask on their pages as well as yours) • Look for people in the news • Ask for permission to use photos
- 8. • Create grouparound topic on your beat • Create page for topic or story
- 9. Options for journalists: •Use personal FB account, all or most public • Journalist page • Personal account, enable subscriptions (decide which updates are public)
- 10. Why use Twitter? • It can save you time • It extends your reach • It’s an engaging, conversational tool • It’s great for connecting with people who experience stories you write about
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- 15. Vetting tweeps, verifyinginfo • Check full Twitter stream, profile • Connect on phone, in person • Check location (not 100% reliable) • Others verifying? Clusters, not echos • Photos? • Other sources, other tweeps • Ask, “How do you know that?”
- 16. Say what youdon’t know
- 18. More on verification Craig Silverman tips: http://www.cjr.org/behind_the_news/eight_sim ple_rules_for_doing_a.php Mandy Jenkins tips: http://zombiejournalism.com/2011/09/b-s- detection-for-journalists/
- 19. Routine Twitter use • Follow people interested in your topic(replies, retweets, check followers) • Join topical conversation • Master Twitter search (advanced) • Find & promote topical #hashtags (#prostate #cancer) • Use Twitter routinely on your beat
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- 22. Use other socialtools, too
- 23. • Growing swiftly • Users share (pin, re-pin) visual content • 80% of users are women • Heavy use for food, fashion, travel • Embeddable • How might you use?
- 24. • Do agencieson beat post photos? • Search for keywords, photos • Invite people to contribute photos on news stories • Connect w/ people posting photos • Seek permission (check conditions) • Give credit
- 25. • Do agencies,people on beat use? • Watch for public videos getting attention (will often see links, mentions on Twitter) • Embed in stories, blogs
- 26. • “Mayor” isgreat source about an org or venue (employee or customer) • See who has checked in for event or breaking news story • Tips might provide questions for stories • Break story w/ Foursquare “shout”
- 27. • Connect withsources • Find new sources through connections, groups • Discussions help find experts • Check updates, slides, travel • Search by location & keyword
- 28. • Important for search • Find sources • Follow sources in Circles • Follow beat topics in Sparks • Interview by video Hangouts
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- 30. Social fame isfleeting
- 31. Time management • Integratesocial media into reporting, writing & editing processes • Use lists, TweetDeck, HootSuite to organize the chaos • You can tweet & read tweets quickly • Invest some time • Decide what’s not important
- 32. Ethical considerations • How do you identify yourself? • Ask skeptical questions • Seek verification • Say what you don’t know • Ask question, repeat rumor w/ questions, if at all • Correct quickly
- 34. Read more aboutit • stevebuttry.wordpress.com • slideshare.net/stevebuttry • @stevebuttry • zombiejournalism.com • stephenbuttry@gmail.com
Editor's Notes
- #4 We’ll discuss how reporters need to use social media to cover their beats more efficiently.
- #12 We’ll start with some examples of why Twitter is a valuable breaking-news tool. Most will, of course, remember that Twitpic had the first shot of the Hudson landing.
- #14 We’ll also discuss the Denver plane crash that Mike Wilson survived and how the media missed an opportunity by not using Twitter.
- #23 We’ll discuss how reporters need to use social media to cover their beats more efficiently.