MediatingConflict: Do news orgs need to double-check Twitter?
Following up on a post looking at the Channel 4 News’ use of Twitter (picked up from the Journalism.co.uk ‘Twinterview’ with Krishnan Guru-Murthy) Daniel Bennett looks at at the BBC’s policy: “First, I...
View Article#Tip of the day from Journalism.co.uk – fighting misinformation on social media
Social networks allow news organisations to break news fast, but with that comes the pitfall of unintentionally spreading unverified facts or fake images. An in-depth feature on Poynter has good advice...
View Article#Tip of the day from Journalism.co.uk – advice on verifying news tips on Twitter
IJNet.org has collected together a series of tips from social news editor for the Huffington post Mandy Jenkins and editorial director of OpenFile.ca and author of Regret the Error Craig Silverman, on...
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Tool of the week for journalists – Error Level Analysis, to test if a photo...
Tool of the week: Error Level Analysis What is it? A free tool to allow you to test whether or not an image has been digitally manipulated in programmes such as Adobe Photoshop. Paste the URL of a...
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#Tip of the day from Journalism.co.uk – how to verify tweets
On Memeburn Peter Verweij has produced a great list running through the different ways journalists can verify the content of tweets and avoid being tripped up. These include using Twitter itself to...
View Article#jpod – Advice on verifying social media content and correcting errors
In this week’s podcast we collect together practical advice from those working in digital journalism on the best techniques and tools journalists can use to verify content posted on social media...
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Tool of the week for journalists: Geofeedia, to locate real-time photos,...
Tool of the week: Geofeedia What is it? A tool that allows you to search for a location and find geolocated tweets, photos and videos. How is it of use to journalists? This tool offers potential for...
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#Tip of the day from Journalism.co.uk – verifying videos and images from...
Mark Little, chief executive and founder of Storyful, a social news agency, has written for Nieman on harnessing “the wisdom of the crowd“. He shares the editorial processes that guide Storyful in...
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#Tip of the day for journalists: Save this list of verification tools
If you are newsgathering via social media – or even taking inspiration for a story from a press release, you will need to use one or more of a number of verification tools to help check your sources....
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#Tip of the day for journalists: Learn from fake Hurricane Sandy pictures
There are a couple of good posts on how to verify images from social media following the sharing of fake Hurricane Sandy pictures on Twitter and Facebook. Fiona McCann from social news agency Storyful...
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Hurricane Sandy and verification: 4 key takeaways from Storyful Hangout
Copyright: Image by MTA Long Island Rail Road on Flickr. Some rights reserved. Hurricane Sandy presented a challenge to journalists using social media channels: how can you be sure that the content you...
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#Tip of the day for journalists – UGC verification
By Ivy Dawned on Flickr. Some rights reserved. Storyful journalist Jenny Hauser has produced a post on the European Journalism Centre about verifying user-generated-content. As well as pointers from...
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#Tip of the day for journalists: Verifying Twitter content
Image by shawncampbell on Flickr. Some rights reserved. Digital First Media’s digital transformation editor Steve Buttry has produced a detailed post outlining a series of techniques for verifying...
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#Tip: Learn from this post on verifying pope story
Image by Ivy Dawned on Flickr. Some rights reserved The BBC College of Journalism has published a post explaining how journalists could have fact-checked an image that allegedly shows Jorge Bergoglio,...
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#Tip: Process and tools for finding and verifying UGC
Thinkstock One of the ongoing challenges for online journalists is how to effectively find and verify content shared on social media platforms, particularly in breaking news situations where people are...
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#Tip: Use this Chrome plug-in for image verification
Image by Ivy Dawned on Flickr. Some rights reserved We’ve mentioned how useful Google’s Search by Image function can be in verifying images before – like a regular image search in reverse, you put a...
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#Tip: Useful tools for digital newsrooms in 2014
Image by JM. Some rights reserved. NewsWhip has put together a list of tools to help digital journalists brush up on their skills and stay ahead of the game this year. The list of 10 tools every...
View ArticleMediatingConflict: Do news orgs need to double-check Twitter?
Following up on a post looking at the Channel 4 News’ use of Twitter (picked up from the Journalism.co.uk ‘Twinterview’ with Krishnan Guru-Murthy) Daniel Bennett looks at at the BBC’s policy: “First, I...
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