Top 10: What We’ve Been Reading and Sharing, May 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. Award-winning open-source investigative unit @Bellingcat is launching a new podcast called Bellingchat. The first episode will be a deep dive with investigators on the techniques they used to break the MH17 story. DM questions to @bellingChat. https://j.mp/2WRdsuN
2. All sessions and talks from @republica’s recent #rpREMOTE online event are now available on YouTube: 89 speakers and 52 hours of video, including @doctorow talking about the spread of conspiracy theories and loss of trust in our institutions. https://j.mp/3bKpB96
3. Interested in the future of local news around the world? @risj_oxford’s webinar with @joyjenkins follows up on 2018’s ‘The Digital Transformation of Local News’ to explore how publishers are navigating the digital landscape. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ipUG744t5IY
4. Keeping yourself and your team sane, resilient and productive is a challenge for newsrooms working remotely during the pandemic. @newmarkjschool asked members of its News Innovation and Leadership program what coping strategies they have adopted. https://j.mp/3dHzjug
5. ‘The Kit: Exposing the Invisible’ is @anticorruption’s comprehensive guide for the layman to using proven investigative techniques and tools to uncover corporate corruption and obscure business activities around the world. https://j.mp/3bEY9JP
6. Looking beyond the pandemic, as we move out of lockdown, @UlrikHaagerup asks, ‘What have we learned, and how do we avoid returning to bad newsroom habits that — already before this crisis — eroded trust in journalism and in democracy?’ https://j.mp/2WF6p7a via @politico
7. Implementing a reader membership program can be a daunting process for smaller newsrooms. @fedecherubini outlines low-cost strategies for collecting and using data to build a successful program. https://j.mp/2KZROxM via @membershippzzle
8. Hosting digital community conversations on Zoom is an emerging way for journalists to build engagement. @localvoicesnet shares tips on how they’ve organised everything from larger town hall meetings to more focused topical small group conversations. https://j.mp/36bFvbe
9. Our latest case study: How indie NYC mag W42ST turned to Live Blog to keep their community connected after being forced to pause their successful print edition due to the pandemic. https://j.mp/2SDwm5R @w42st @philobr #liveblog
10. To face an algorithmic info ecosystem & emerging global power structures, journalism must reinvent itself with new methods, tools and products, writes @ilparone. In our view, that necessitates a new CMS fit for the new media paradigm. https://j.mp/2yWJI6K via @PolisLSE