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By: Using Twitter at the Chicago Tribune | Socialmedia.biz

Using Twitter at the Chicago Tribune | Socialmedia.biz — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 07:53:06 +0000

[...] the past few weeks I’ve begun plying the waters to see who’s begun to take advantage of the new social tools now available to all of us, in [...]

By: Using social media to build an audience | Socialmedia.biz

Using social media to build an audience | Socialmedia.biz — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 07:43:58 +0000

[...] • I began exploring this topic in depth with my post How to use social media in the newsroom. If you’d like to add additional examples of how newspapers, TV and radio stations or [...]

By: Albert Maruggi

Albert Maruggi — Thu, 14 May 2009 14:47:33 +0000

I'm be interested to know the following 1) how many news organizations use multimedia from others, either sound or video to enhance a story 2) whether journalists really use social media for story ideas or it is still a press kit dominated world pushed by PR people to journalists I cited this recent study by Cision on journalist sources

By: jdlasica

jdlasica — Thu, 16 Apr 2009 22:18:29 +0000

I see that graphicdesignr was tracking 1,360 U.S. newspaper Twitter accounts in February before giving up the project.

By: CharlotteAnne

CharlotteAnne — Sun, 22 Mar 2009 19:58:42 +0000

JD, here is a link to the slideshare where I posted my presentation on Social Media for Journalists at the Nevada Interactive Media Summit at UNR on March 7.
http://www.slideshare.net/CharlotteAnne/social-me...
There's no audio on the slideshow, but every page where there is an example has a link out to the news organization's site.
I hope this is helpful and will send a bit more later ...
yours,
C-A

By: Ron Casalotti

Ron Casalotti — Wed, 11 Mar 2009 15:07:53 +0000

BusinessWeek is into Twitter in a big way (with more to come soon!), with journalists, editors and business-side people like me using Twitter extensively. Most recently, we’re getting the word out and interacting with the users of BusinessWeek’s social media business info sharing platform, Business Exchange (http://bx.businesweek.com) using Twitter (@bwbx).

Here’s a link to a blog post by the EIC of the BusinessWeek.com Web site, John A. Byrne that has more details and lots of links. 'The Twittering Gang at BusinessWeek' http://is.gd/bnNs

By: Chuck Welch

Chuck Welch — Sun, 08 Mar 2009 05:39:24 +0000

I'm now publishing a community hyperlocal in Lakeland, Florida. At LakelandLocal.com we have six primary contributors. Three with newspaper experience -- though we're all now in other fields. We've also started MetroI4News to cover the I4 corridor, but it is a bit new....

To answer your #journchat questions:

(1) We send every article link out through Twitter. I've covered a couple events live where readers sent questions/concerns through Twitter.

(2) From March 2007 to July 2008, I created a weekly crime map for Lakeland. I used CommunityWalk.com as it was easier to batch load the data.

I now create weekly and monthly maps of the housing market using the same tool.

(3) We publish our Lakeland Minutes (60 seconds of unedited video from various Lakeland locations and events) using YouTube and Ustream.

(4) We also use Flickr photo galleries to feature the work of our photographer, and host the majority of our photos on Flickr

(5) I use a Twitter account to publish short news reports and notices. I place it on the site with a short piece of code.

(6) We've always published our work using a Creative Commons copyright.

(7) I mod #journ2journ and I'm starting #allnewsislocal for community/citizen journalists (hyperlocal, bloggers, etc. Whatever your favorite term...)

By: jdlasica

jdlasica — Sat, 07 Mar 2009 03:05:04 +0000

CharlotteAnne, looking forward to seeing the output of this. Thanks for sharing!

By: Elise Ackerman

Elise Ackerman — Fri, 06 Mar 2009 04:39:44 +0000

Hey JD, journalists are increasingly using Twitter for newstips. Here is a story I just posted after reading Jimmy Wales Tweet on the subject: http://www.siliconbeat.com/2009/03/05/jason-calac...

By: Kevin Anderson

Kevin Anderson — Thu, 05 Mar 2009 22:47:56 +0000

At the Guardian, we're using social media in a number of ways. Just yesterday, Matt Weaver on our news desk highlighted the tweets from members of Congress during and immediately after British Prime Minister Gordon Brown's address: http://bit.ly/hHBTB All he had to do is favourite the tweets he thought were interesting, and they automatically displayed on the page. Jemima Kiss, our digital content reporter, and Charles Arthur, Bobbie Johnson and Jack Schofield on our technology team, all twitter, using it to promote their own content, flag up interesting stories to their followers and even do twitter interviews. Building on real-time reporting and aggregation that I did during the US elections using Twitter, including using Twitpic and Twitter to report from the celebrations in Washington on election night, we now have a feature called Tweet the People: http://bit.ly/e4wPr We ask daily questions of our readers in the US on our US politics blog, Deadline USA, and also in Twitter. Our Travel team has started a feature called Twittrip, where they take travel tips from their Twitter followers in real-time. Benji Lanyado came up with the idea, and we set him up with the excellent Twibble Twitter client for his phone so he could tweet and upload pics to Twitpic right off his phone. http://bit.ly/E9nCW As for Flickr, I used it during a trip across the US. I used Creative Commons licenced photos, but I also posted my photos under Creative Commons. It also allowed me to geo-tag the photos and automatically include location information on Flickr. http://bit.ly/QHWzp We also had a very successful Flickr project called Message to Obama, headed up by our head of communities, Meg Pickard. http://bit.ly/14e416 We also used an on demand printing service to make a book out of the contributions. We also did quite a successful experiment using the video conversation service Seesmic to elicit comments about the US elections ahead of the New Hampshire primaries: http://bit.ly/67phZ That's just a smattering of what we're doing, but it gives a flavour of some of the ways that we're partnering with Guardian readers.