N.B. This guide has been fully updated as of April 2017
Welcome!
The Social Media Reporter is a guide to help you leverage the power of social media in your reporting.
If you feel less than comfortable with all this, you are in the right place. …
This section covers:
- Twitter lists (public and private) and how to make and find them
- Using Tweetdeck effectively
- Facebook Interest Lists and Groups
- Tools for getting organised (free and paid)
- IFTTT (If This Then That)
N.B. This symbol ✳️ means the tool is free!
This is the first section for…
This section covers:
How to find images and video from a specific location:
- Direct from Twitter, Instagram and other social media sites
- Using free and paid tools
- The ethics and crediting of eyewitness media
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Ethics and crediting
I’m putting this first because it’s important…
This section covers:
- Fake accounts
- Verifying images
- Verifying video
- More resources
Update: The US election in November 2016 and the debate around fake news has thrown a huge spotlight on this important area. For more reading and the latest updates, check First Draft News.
One of the most important things…
This section covers:
- Advanced search on Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, LinkedIn and Reddit to find interviewees, story ideas and for research
- Tracking people down via their social media accounts
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✳️ Facebook Signal
Update: Facebook Signal has closed down, so these links no longer work unfortunately…
This section covers:
- How to find out what’s trending — on Facebook, Instagram, YouTube, Twitter, Google, and Reddit
- What’s the best hashtag to use?
- Who shared this story?
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The last couple of years have seen an explosion in tools and interest…
Here are a few places I’d recommend you go for more on social media and news.
✳️ First Draft News has rapidly emerged as the go-to place for everything to do with verification and ethics. It pulls together articles, guides, case studies and online training courses from many of the…
** This is preview of what’s to come in The Social Media Reporter — a guide to using social media for newsgathering. It will be up-and-running soon. If you’d like to like to be alerted when it’s ready, please send me an email at cordeliaheb@gmail.com …
Cordelia Hebblethwaite
Commissioning editor for @bbcideas — short films for curious minds. Via @BBCNewsnight, @JSKStanford, @BBCTrending and more. Wrote www.socialmediareporter.org
