Dhruti Shah – Sourcing stories on social media

BACK TO BASICS….(AND OTHERSTORIES FROM THE UGC HUB)

Finding people

Dhruti ShahTwitter: @[email protected]

The best stories are about people

When a news story is breaking - want to find people at the heart of the story.

● Direct contacts● Verification● Accuracy● Images● Other people

PEOPLE

WHO?WHAT?WHY?

WHEN?WHERE?

HOW?

QUESTIONS

Social networks - usual suspectsFacebook - change your settings to US when you want to do a searchTwitter - use advanced searchGoogle+ - think about associated gmail accountsLinkedIn - worth having a LinkedIn Premium accountGeofeedia and other location toolsInstagram - new search tool outChatapps - WeChat, Whatsapp, Line, TelegramEmails - old-fashioned yet still valuablePipl - deep web searchMobile phone directories….

NETWORKS

TUNISIA/FRANCE ATTACK

EVERY MEANS POSSIBLE

SEARCHING

COLLABORATION

Look at the Twitterhandles….

CACHED PAGES

Two British students killed in Borneo. Find out more.

No nameNo details

Nothing

Now what?

JIGSAW ID

Before social networking, there was just networking….When you need a contact, don’t forget to ask friends, family connections….

BACK TO BASICS

Sally Taft’s history of the BBC’s UGC Hubhttp://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-30421631

Alex Murray’s Leguape bloghttp://www.leguape.com/portfolio/finding-ken-brown-his-photos-of-virgin-galactic-test-flight-crash

BBC College of Journalismhttp://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/collegeofjournalism

First Draft Newshttps://medium.com/1st-draft

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