Tweets for Keeps: September 9 – September 15, 2012
Twitter highlights from Block by Block 2012, connecting young readers to newsprint, and a rare study: how to manage journalists through these turbulent times.
Twitter highlights from Block by Block 2012, connecting young readers to newsprint, and a rare study: how to manage journalists through these turbulent times.
New French fad: co-opetition for ads. Picking the right word for Twitter, rockstars of #opengov, a how-to on college police beats, and a quick explainer on journalism today worth passing on.
The reach of social and the reporting implications, comps for both data-driven newsrooms and for freelancers, plus keeping an eye on new combinations and content under the journalism roof.
How to deep-search Google, experiments in revenue, nuances of foundations funding for-profit news, tweeting your beat v. your personality and ten years of the internet in a full color graphic.
Be a political ad watcher! Fall in love with data! Consider whether Twitter will help or hurt your political reporting! Plus shield laws and citizens, and rethinking local ads.
A new tool to track hot topics, looking for newsrooms to test. Learn to add GIFs to your reports and love it! Where to find political ad spending now it’s online, and urging j-schools to change.
Twitter’s new, unscientific political pulse, inspiration in the origins of Radio Lab, practical ad tools, verification virtues, and a thick journalism blogroll to help refresh your reading list.
Twitter keepers this week: increasing the value of images online, two views of the new newsroom, “ballsy” community storytelling and more Journatic fallout.
How to localize anything, a Google tool that could draw attention to your writing, easier data and “citizen” journalism, and fascinating, long-term insights on how people relate to news.
YouTube’s tool to protects sources, tips to live tweet, and thoughts from indie publishers on how to best use SEO. Plus, journalism skills in demand and AP’s new print project.