mobile tools for journalism

#NewstrainNW

•  Serve your audience on social media – and reach a new one

•  Feed tweets into your site as a breaking story

•  Use live tweets as your notes •  Helps staff communicate •  Start writing a story in-office from

reporters’ live tweets

•  Mix play-by-play with context, background •  Pass on quotes, who is there, add media •  Note significant pauses and stops •  Divide and conquer as a team •  Take questions, respond when possible

•  Group tweets by keyword •  Find other sources •  Expand your audience •  Organize content for display and archiving

•  Search for hashtag(s) already in use •  If a hashtag is already in use, adopt it •  If not, choose one that’s simple & unique •  Geographic abbreviation helps

(#SEAStorm) •  Geographic better than branded

•  Write a post on this session in email. Email to 8d58j99skhgyx@tumblr.com

•  Take photos or audio. Email

to 8d58j99skhgyx@tumblr.com

•  Send tweets with hashtag #NewstrainNW

Mandy  Jenkins  mandyjenkins@gmail.com  

@mjenkins  More  resources  and  such  at:  

zombiejournalism.com  mandyjenkins.com  

slideshare.net/mandyjenkins  

Credits: Steve Buttry originated some slide images, text