Social Media for Newsgathering

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Storyful/intro slide The world’s first social media news agency.

•  State-of-the-art strategies and tools for finding news as it is breaking on social media

•  Verifying eyewitness content from all over the world •  Distributing newsworthy eyewitness content to newsrooms. •  Licensing viral content

•  Search by keywords, location, time •  Search quickly - before the stream is taken

over by reaction

•  LinkedIn for Journalists – join the group. •  Premium service: free for journalists who

do a 35-minute webinar. •  Keep your profile current and robust so

potential sources can find you.

•  Gathering info using Forms

•  Results flow into a shareable spreadsheet

•  Can do surveys

(n) The act of organizing and maintaining a collection of media and information around a particular subject or area.

Mandy Jenkins [email protected]

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