Online Journalism week 1 - Twitter & RSS

Why?

Do something now

• Write on a piece of paper one par: Why you’re studying online journalism skills. BE HONEST. Don’t write what you think I want to hear.

• Keep it anonymous• Hand them in when finished

•5 minutes!

Now, my turn.

Northcliffe

“Fully integrated multi-media newsrooms … all 1,500 journalists

writing for both print and online”

Trinity Mirror

“Every morning the journalists

check YouTube and MySpace for our local area"

“web-savvy, who know what RSS is, who can

edit video”

Manchester

Evening News

“I don’t want to hire single-

platform journalists anymore,” Paul Horrocks, editor

Guardian, FT.com, BBC, Sky

“A journalist with

interchangeable skills is more valuable than

one without…”

“…newly hired journalists are expected to be able to work in more than one

area.”K Saltzis, From Single to Multimedia

News

http://ulken.com/blog/archive/000145.html

Technical skills required in journo job

ads

Do something now

• Sign up to Twitter.com• Go to twitter.com/paulbradshaw and

click ‘Follow’• Get ready to Twitter!

•5 minutes!

Twitter(microbloggin

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“Twitter is a great way of breaking news very quickly and easily. Twitter’s mobile notification makes it perfect for this kind of service.”

Twitter is a great way of breaking news very quickly and easily. Twitter’s mobile notification makes it perfect for this kind of service.

Mobile

Alerts

Live events

Social(browse, network)

‘Call out’(contributors,

tips, leads)

Search

Subscribe

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Who?

Assigning reporter roles

• We’re launching a news site. We’re recruiting! The editors and I need to decide who covers which ‘beats’…

• …and here’s the assignment brief while we’re at it.

Break.

RSS

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Do something now

• Sign up to Del.icio.us• Sign up to Google Reader• Add OJB to your RSS feed

subscriptions• Join the OJB Facebook group• Add other group members to your

twitter

•5 minutes!

Do more

• Go to Google News and search for key words. Set up a Google Alert or RSS feed for that search.

• Do the same at http://blogsearch.google.com/ and Technorati. Bookmark. Subscribe to useful RSS feeds.

• Do a Google search and, for a good result, click on ‘similar pages’. Bookmark.

• Search delicious. Add other ‘taggers’ to your network

• Explore Digg and Reddit too.• Search Twitter• Join a useful Facebook group, bookmark it• Identify potential contributors• TWITTER ANYTHING INTERESTING!

Directed study (5 hours)

• Read the reading• Build your personal news service and RSS

feeds• Immerse yourself in your specialist area,

read, network, browse, search, connect• Twitter anything interesting• Identify forthcoming events you might

Twitter from live• By next week you should have researched

enough material to write a draft article, e.g. ‘Ten things you need to know about…’

• Remember: editorial meeting next week, 1pm, Costa.

Pub!