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#newsrw: 10 tips for using social media as a news gathering tool
Social media has become an essential newsgathering tool for journalists. Here we look at the top 10 tips and tools to make the most out of web
Channel 4 News: ‘Liveblogging isn’t replacing other content, it adds value’
Liveblogging enhances the journalistic process, according to Anna Doble, social media producer at Channel 4 News and a site editor for Channel4.com/news.
At Channel 4 News liveblogging sits alongside other content ‘adding value’ to the work carried out by the teams working on the television programme and on the website rather than replacing it.
Liveblogging allows for constant breaking news updates throughout the day as well as greater engagement with viewers.
Anna will be discussing these issues on the panel for the liveblogging session at news:rewired.
“We’ve only just started really” Q&A: FT’s Rob Minto on data visualisation and infographics
In our latest Q&A we talk to FT interactives editor Rob Minto about interactives, data visualisations and inforgraphics, and how these new ways of storytelling are changing journalism for everyone
Rob Minto
Rob Minto is interactive editor at the Financial Times, with responsibility for interactive graphics, multimedia, audio and blogs. He has also been the FT’s technology correspondent, and has worked at the paper for more than six years. Before the FT, Rob worked as an online editor at the Risk Waters Group (now Incisive Media) and […]
Peter Bale
Peter Bale is the executive producer of Microsoft UK, responsible for content on platforms including MSN UK – the largest commercial portal in the UK. He joined Microsoft from News Corporation where he was online editorial director of the Times and the Sunday Times. He was a founder of FTMarketWatch.com and was a Reuters correspondent […]
Kevin Anderson
Kevin Anderson is a freelance journalist and digital strategist with more than a decade of experience with the BBC and the Guardian. Anderson has been a digital journalist since 1996 with experience in radio, television, print and the web. As a journalist, he uses blogs, social networks, Web 2.0 tools and mobile technology to break […]
Coverage
News:rewired was a high trending topic on Twitter: catch-up with #newsrw conversation at this link. There was a liveblog tracking tweets at this link. The BBC College of Journalism filmed parts of the day and City University live-streamed the key sessions. City University journalism students Dina Rickman, Arj Singh, Heather Christie and Alex Walters provided […]
Issue of citizen journalism produces heated debate
The afternoon crowdsourcing session at news:rewired was dominated by disagreements about the value of citizen journalism
Speaker Q&A: Ruth Barnett, Sky News online politics producer
In the latest of our Q&As we talk to Ruth Barnett, social media correspondent for Sky News – who this week begins a new political role for the organisation’s Westminster bureau. She joined the broadcaster in 2007 as a multimedia producer and was appointed as Twitter correspondent in March 2009, before taking on her most […]
Ruth Barnett
Ruth Barnett is a social media correspondent for Sky News. She joined the broadcaster in 2007 as a multimedia producer and was appointed as Twitter correspondent in March 2009, before taking on her most recent role last month. Ruth has pioneered Sky’s real-time coverage of live events and uses Twitter and social media to track […]