Tweets for Keeps: April 22 – April 28, 2012
Theme of the tweet week: ways to ease the change. A clearinghouse of free training, a visual how-to become a data journalist, and new ways to focus and fund your work.
Theme of the tweet week: ways to ease the change. A clearinghouse of free training, a visual how-to become a data journalist, and new ways to focus and fund your work.
New Pew research finds most Americans are “quite attached” to local news, multiple ways to engage your community, tech to empower the next generation and tips on becoming a journo-preneur.
Tips from this week in the Twitterverse. Media companies: nurture start-ups. Reporters: follow the money. Publishers: learn from the past, streamline your website, and check your success with six essential digital strategies.
This week, we examine the importance of youth and diversity in media, then share tips to get the job done: build a local news site, crowdsource content with consent, and leverage sales staff.
Subscription options big players or small bloggers can install, easy apps for reporting fast from the field, and a new j-school focusing on collaboration. Plus: news orgs against public info access.
This week we curated lists, scoped America’s media landscape, converted brand to revenue, and “newsgathered on the cheap.” Plus: lessons learned from opensource and startups.
Creativity awarded: political climate illuminated by open data mapping & success across the spectrum of non & for profit news sites. Plus, a cautionary tale for hyperlocal publishers.
The style guide of the times – do you keep all those symbols when you quote from Twitter? Debate over the 99 cent story model, and tough questions designed to change a newsroom’s success mindset.
Keepers this week include: Collusion, a new tool promising new tracking data; doing better business on FB and LinkedIn, and a brand new collaboration place for better journalism in the digital age.
This week: the Chicago News Cooperative stopped publishing, the Philly Inquirer news staff petitioned potential owners to keep editorial integrity, and Gannett announced plans to paywall its papers.