Top 10: What We’ve Been Reading and Sharing, August 2020

Each day Sourcefabric shares on social media a wide range of stories affecting the converging worlds of journalism and technology. If you haven’t had the opportunity, be sure to follow us on Twitter (@Sourcefabric), Facebook (Sourcefabric), YouTube (Sourcefabric), LinkedIn (sourcefabric) and, of course, here on Medium.

Our monthly Top 10 list is based upon the number of impressions each story received on Twitter.

1. What all communities need: New trustworthy local institutions willing and able to become primary news sources for their readers. @NiemanLab looks at Lookout, @kdoctor’s new network of local news sites. https://j.mp/2PGeyF8
2. After the poisoning attack on Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny, @OCCRP looks at his unorthodox investigative journalism that helped expose Putin’s corruption. https://j.mp/34lmkwY by @ichbinilya
3. Read about how our technology is helping @CdnPressNews build the Local Journalism Initiative, a newswire service that lets Canada’s news outlets cross-pollinate each other and share local content. https://j.mp/346dEuh via @ijnet
4. How might journalism be combined with data science and design to reinvent news media and build a new journalistic culture? @PolisLSE weighs in: https://j.mp/2Yz4oeH by @ylenews, @ilparone
5. Could journalists on theatre stages live performing their newspaper’s stories draw paying crowds? @jaakkolyytinen does a deep dive into this growing global trend, so called ‘live journalism’, and how such shows can be put together. @risj_oxford. https://j.mp/2XxGTlD
6. We picked 15 of our favourite music and radio accounts to follow to give your Twitter timeline a boost with the latest industry news. https://j.mp/33x74MR @Podnews @JamesCridland @RadiodaysEurope @musicrcreative @Radiosurvivor @jacobsmedia @tribeofnoise @future_of_music @Bandcamp @pitchfork @SpinningIndie @DavidLloydRADIO @DavidLloydRADIO @radioworld_news @RadioTodayLinks @abottomley
7. Datashare is an open-source, free tool from @ICIJorg — used in the groundbreaking Luanda Leaks investigation — that lets collaborative journalists securely share and search millions of documents in diverse formats, including emails, spreadsheets and pdfs. https://j.mp/2QxhGnj
8. Journalists are increasingly turning to tools such as SEMrush to identify trends, turn up stories and even debunk fake news by analysing social media activity and data on website and search traffic. @semrush https://j.mp/2DsnkUu by @JPGJournalism via @journalismnews
9. In these difficult times, it’s more important than ever that publishers tap all their potential revenue streams. @damianradcliffe has put together a hyperlinked listicle showcasing 231 proven revenue ideas for publishers, large and small. https://j.mp/3k4rd2V via @wnip
10. News organisations are concentrating on building back better in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic. @ejcnet has 20 essential case studies on how they’re doing it and the remarkable resilience of European journalism. https://j.mp/2EL31T0