Three speakers at news:rewired talking about use of Reddit in journalism, moderated by Mark Frankel, assistant editor, social news, BBC James Cook, Daily Dot There’s two main tasks: Finding new stories Sharing stories How do you get started?…
crowd-sourced journalism
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news:rewired Crowdsourcing
So, onto other people’s panels, and I’ve plumped for the crowd-sourcing one, as I’m not local enough for the local panel and not clever enough for the data-mashing one… The speakers have placed very heavy emphasis on…
Twitter, News and Mob Journalism
And that’s the key thing to understand about these distributed, mass publication media. They are not inherently good or bad. They are not a force for good or evil, but merely a vehicle in which the voices of the…
The Day Twitter Destroyed a Gagging Order
What a morning it has been. The phrase “historic moment” is desperately over-used, but it genuinely feels like one just occurred. A very old media process happened – a company got a gagging order on a national newspaper, to try and…
Flightblogger Breaks Obama Running Mate Story
One of our bloggers [broke the Obama running mate story](http://www.flightglobal.com/blogs/flightblogger/2008/08/vice-presidential-picks-and-pl.html). Here’s how:He knew that the candidate’s planes go into shop for re-painting around the time of the…