Dhruti Shah – Sourcing stories on social media
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BACK TO BASICS….(AND OTHER STORIES FROM THE UGC HUB) Finding people Dhruti Shah Twitter: @DhrutiShah [email protected]
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BACK TO BASICS….(AND OTHERSTORIES FROM THE UGC HUB)
Finding people
Dhruti ShahTwitter: @[email protected]
The best stories are about people
When a news story is breaking - want to find people at the heart of the story.
● Direct contacts● Verification● Accuracy● Images● Other people
PEOPLE
WHO?WHAT?WHY?
WHEN?WHERE?
HOW?
QUESTIONS
Social networks - usual suspectsFacebook - change your settings to US when you want to do a searchTwitter - use advanced searchGoogle+ - think about associated gmail accountsLinkedIn - worth having a LinkedIn Premium accountGeofeedia and other location toolsInstagram - new search tool outChatapps - WeChat, Whatsapp, Line, TelegramEmails - old-fashioned yet still valuablePipl - deep web searchMobile phone directories….
NETWORKS
TUNISIA/FRANCE ATTACK
EVERY MEANS POSSIBLE
SEARCHING
COLLABORATION
Look at the Twitterhandles….
CACHED PAGES
Two British students killed in Borneo. Find out more.
No nameNo details
Nothing
Now what?
JIGSAW ID
Before social networking, there was just networking….When you need a contact, don’t forget to ask friends, family connections….
BACK TO BASICS
Sally Taft’s history of the BBC’s UGC Hubhttp://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-30421631
Alex Murray’s Leguape bloghttp://www.leguape.com/portfolio/finding-ken-brown-his-photos-of-virgin-galactic-test-flight-crash
BBC College of Journalismhttp://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/collegeofjournalism
First Draft Newshttps://medium.com/1st-draft
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