Feed for this topicTwitter moves at the speed of cyber optics. Most publishers aren’t able to track Twitter 24 hours a day. With so many brilliant ideas, resources, and breaking news on Twitter having the shelf life of a gnat, the JA pulls our top picks each week from our stream for you to find when it’s convenient. In this section you’ll find tweets from JA’s tweet stream that offer interesting tools, tactics, tips and techniques to help you experiment, innovate and collaborate.
Tools to manage your freelancing career, tips for making hard facts easy to read, making journalism “memberful,” a report about the importance of LatinX communities, resources for covering the climate crisis
Posted on March 12, 2020
Topics: Innovation Tweets for Keeps
A Twitter sorting tool, transparency tips, an AI institute for helping vets, how to practice “right speech,” and keeping track of protests and riots
Posted on January 12, 2020
Topics: Innovation Tweets for Keeps
Fact-checking tools, social media metrics tips, data science and AI for social good, telling stories of forgotten women, challenging journalistic barriers
Posted on December 8, 2019
Topics: Innovation Tweets for Keeps
A search engine built by journalists, content guidance for social media, facilitating diversity in the media landscape, reporting on humanitarian access, outreach workers building trust
Posted on October 11, 2019
Topics: Resources Tweets for Keeps
Guidance for interviewing sources with mental health disorders, tips for using AI, collaborating with readership to solicit data sets, evidence that people still care about old-school media, a legacy paper becoming a nonprofit “community asset”
It’s very likely that journalists will interview sources with a mental health disorder or cover a story that involves mental health. And getting it right means a more informed public that understands mental health and encourages treatment. https://t.co/AfXEc5arWY
— Poynter (@Poynter) May 24, 2019
New post: data from #AI represents a new challenge for journalists – here are some of the ways we need to adapt https://t.co/3Z68iXuz7F #ddj
— Paul Bradshaw (@paulbradshaw) May 23, 2019
CrowdNewsroom is a platform @correctiv_org began building in 2015 to get its readership involved in assembling non-public data sets for its investigations. @lenfestinst‘s @ylichterman asked its publisher @David_Schraven about how the platform works https://t.co/7drI4JbsKb pic.twitter.com/aDKexyxrPu
— GIJN (@gijn) May 19, 2019
NPR debuts a new Morning Edition theme, and the fact that people care shows the continued power of old-fashioned, non-Internet radio https://t.co/TpQKHZWgB1
— Student Press Law Center (@SPLC) May 12, 2019
Salt Lake Tribune seeks to become a nonprofit ‘community asset,’ a first for a legacy newspaper – The Salt Lake Tribune https://t.co/7SwIkRMGrH
— Malcolm Moran (@malcolm_moran) May 8, 2019
Posted on June 12, 2019
Topics: Resources Tweets for Keeps
Tools for taking control of smart speakers, tips for handling burnout, the benefits of global citizenry reporting, the perks of hiring an editor, partnerships for empowerment
Taking control of news on smart speakers https://t.co/rWBqKKR9MN pic.twitter.com/AfG4Qf9Els
— radioinfo.com.au (@radioinfo) April 28, 2019
Journalists are resilient and passionate, but the impact of what we cover can often affect our well being & mental health. @DartCenter & @CMaslach offer tips to deal with trauma & burnout @IJNet https://t.co/dsvFWjxDev pic.twitter.com/AEeK6QTiPG
— GIJN (@gijn) April 22, 2019
The Global Citizen Observatory >> See why @NASA has #CitizenScientists around the GLOBE measuring trees and more: https://t.co/OGot0hsWbk via @fedscoop @NASAGO #Crowdsourcing #Geospatial #BigData #DataScience #CitizenScience #CitSci #SDGs #Data4Good #Trigonometry pic.twitter.com/r4IvNxFsEG
— Kirk Borne (@KirkDBorne) April 25, 2019
The Global Citizen Observatory >> See why @NASA has #CitizenScientists around the GLOBE measuring trees and more: https://t.co/OGot0hsWbk via @fedscoop @NASAGO #Crowdsourcing #Geospatial #BigData
“Publishers have long understood the need for editors’ services. But if your experience lies in another sector, you might be wondering whether you really need an editor. Here are five good reasons to hire one.” Courtesy of @editorscanada: https://t.co/j5fs91BWux #editors
— ACES: The Society for Editing (@copyeditors) April 26, 2019
Posted on May 2, 2019
Topics: Innovation Resources Tweets for Keeps
How machine learning can help journalists, critical digital literacy tips, communicating a better future, global media philanthropy stats, and a newsletter navigating access to info laws
The journalism industry is still scratching the surface of how it can use machine learning and deep learning. @floriswu690 takes a look at what AI has in store for the future. https://t.co/WNQ9jWFF8R @storybench pic.twitter.com/I3eVt9uG5h
— GIJN (@gijn) March 19, 2019
“Critical digital literacy is not only about evaluating online content but also understanding the internet’s production and consumption processes…” Critical #DigitalLiteracy: 10 Key Readings for Our Distrustful Media Age https://t.co/mA8BTOJm0e #DigitalAge
— #ConnectedLearning (@TheCLAlliance) March 14, 2019
.@henryjenkins of @USC's Civic Imagination Project on his organization’s critical work to get people to imagine the future.
— MacArthur Foundation (@macfound) March 21, 2019
Learn more about their work: https://t.co/bXihMR4K4L pic.twitter.com/NnJEecbC6b
RT @mediafunders: We're pleased to announce our new report on global media #philanthropy, which highlights data, trends & urgent issues facing the field https://t.co/pRl18EeaNJ @beyondbroadcast @SnarkyJones @gatesfoundation @CandidDotOrg
— PhilanTopic (@pndblog) March 31, 2019
Concerned that journalists and researchers didn’t know how to make use of Brazil’s access to information law, the team from @_fiquemsabendo started a newsletter with tips and advice for navigating the law. https://t.co/Yl7BdEvCAS
— IJNet (@IJNet) March 21, 2019
Posted on April 19, 2019
Topics: Innovation Tweets for Keeps
Creative use of statistical tools, preparing for a privacy breach, “future-proofing” a print magazine, legendary reporting advice, the key to philanthropic collaboration
Tools & Tactics
Read how statistician @vm_wylbur used statistical modeling, and, later, machine learning—tools more often used for e-commerce or digital marketing—to measure #humanrights violations that weren’t recorded @hrdag @katiasav @datacivica @itjpsl https://t.co/ffftR7bH0y pic.twitter.com/Z3HlYsZSdE
— GIJN (@gijn) January 8, 2019
Tips & Techniques
How to be prepared for a #data privacy breach https://t.co/a8xX3X4eiK
— Booz Data Science (@BoozDataScience) January 9, 2019
Innovation & Experiments
How to Future-Proof Your Print Magazines https://t.co/EDVZic3MnN via @foliomag pic.twitter.com/wTqYU0Ez6M
— MPA (@mpamagmedia) January 9, 2019
Reports & Articles
From archives: Journalists like @Sulliview @juliaioffe @wesleylowery and @BuzzFeedBen reveal the best reporting advice they have received https://t.co/jecJkzqaUg
— CJR (@CJR) January 1, 2019
People & Collaboration
“In order to drive large-scale change, we need a variety of different actors at the table,” says @olivialeland on @coimpactcollab. “The key piece of everything we’re doing is this recognition that philanthropy is one piece of the overall picture.” @devex https://t.co/7E5QytVXVG
— Skoll Foundation (@SkollFoundation) January 29, 2019
Posted on February 5, 2019
Topics: Resources Tweets for Keeps
Digital storytelling tools, tips for pitching to editors, innovative ideas for using AI in the news, a report on trust in media, collaborating to provide legal help for journalists
Every day, companies are launching new tools to help you build a #digital story. Check out these 10 free digital storytelling tools for journalists, handpicked by @hackastory https://t.co/tzSFPTqP8c @piktochart @JamSnap @knightlab @f_l_o_u_r_i_s_h @anchor @ThingLink @WIREWAX pic.twitter.com/eIqDKwGLn6
— GIJN (@gijn) December 26, 2018
Good morning writers!
— ?️? original batty boy ✨ (@snacktavist) December 17, 2018
A lot of you are asking me how to send pitches to editors. So, I’m going to compose a thread combining some of the greatest tips talented editors like @ZachStafford, @1demerith and @freeblackgirl have given me.
I hope it helps!
Meet the 66 finalists of the AI and the News Open Challenge, with projects exploring how media orgs can ensure #artificialintelligence is used ethically in the news. https://t.co/8oFgIw2XPm #aiethics @knightfdn
— Knight Macon (@knightmacon) December 10, 2018
"If the decline of trust in news has been a crisis decades in the making — and it has — then rebuilding the informed society will take time as well" @thesamgill recaps @knightfdn @GallupNews 2018 report series on trust, #media, #democracy https://t.co/ixUznFrixV #journalism
— Anusha A (@AnushaA100) December 13, 2018
Extensive legal battles are often used to suppress critical journalism. That’s why we’re partnering w/ @PressFreedom, @FirstLookMedia + @RSF_en to provide legal support to embattled journalists, starting w/ @mariaressa + @rapplerdotcom https://t.co/IbrTtiw87U pic.twitter.com/kJk6OJ7vpY
— ICFJ (@ICFJ) December 18, 2018
Posted on January 8, 2019
Topic: Tweets for Keeps
A program to promote podcast diversity, getting started with digital inclusion, a lesson on linguistic listening, stories for inspiration and encouragement, motivating models for collaborative success
The Google Podcasts creator program is designed to increase the diversity of voices in the industry globally and lower barriers to podcasting. https://t.co/RmlMG3y2DC
— JAWS (@womenjournos) November 23, 2018
How to Get Started on Digital Inclusion https://t.co/sBphrpTAYW @McKnightFdn #DEI #tech
— PhilanTopic (@pndblog) November 29, 2018
For @theatlantic I did this piece about a small indigenous community where receptive skills in multiple languages help maintain the social fabric of a diverse place. https://t.co/yIY3HXhfW2
— Michael Erard (@michaelerard) November 26, 2018
Change of pace: Beauty, grace, justice. #Recharge with this thread of stories of triumph and joy. ⬇️ (Pictured: A fall day at @LakeClarkNPS in Alaska.) /1 pic.twitter.com/y0kKOaDWS7
— David Beard (@dabeard) November 3, 2018
Collaborative #journalism can be tricky if ground rules are not set from the beginning. Take a look at these memoranda of understanding (MoU) templates from @CIRonline @resolvephilly @WNYC @AmericanU @tpt & @YourVoiceOhio to help guide your own projects https://t.co/0hJxHvZQF2 pic.twitter.com/YH7Y0VUVVd
— GIJN (@gijn) November 23, 2018
Posted on December 3, 2018
Topic: Tweets for Keeps
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