Twitter 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.
Optimize video length for audience engagement, science behind narrative storytelling, teaching coding as a foreign language, US journalism’s irrevocable shift?, uploading videos directly to vourno
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Posted on November 13, 2013
Topic: Tweets for Keeps
Free tool to make contextual video, guide to metadata collection, news media can show its worth and earn revenue, 5 new sources for resurgent longform journalism, Google’s investigative dashboard
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Posted on November 6, 2013
Topic: Tweets for Keeps
Tools to verify social media content, tips on managing journos in the digital age, the ‘personalisation’ of news sites, the role of media in fragile countries, refuting the death of journalism
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Posted on October 31, 2013
Topic: Tweets for Keeps
Google tool highlights portfolios, conquer social-media marketing misgivings, WaPo’s new blog might represent future of media, TV news and user-generated content, staffing for a digital shift
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Posted on October 22, 2013
Topic: Tweets for Keeps
20 vetted tools for digital journos, become a communications commando, training on investigative biz story ideas, social media as a legit career, how digital media is revolutionizing journalism
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Posted on October 14, 2013
Topic: Tweets for Keeps
Find out if that viral video is real or fake, start digging into data, social media challenges & opportunities, discerning what different cultures watch, nonprofit sites growing slowly but surely
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Posted on October 9, 2013
Topic: Tweets for Keeps
New Pinterest method for publicizing your work, magazines’ valuable lessons for local media, from homicides to education, making decisions on big data, collaboration’s role in journalism’s future
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Posted on October 3, 2013
Topic: Tweets for Keeps
Analyzing the best time to post, a stockpile of investigative resources, accuracy is essential in data journalism, media law expert talks press freedom, and new tricks for print media’s old trade
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Posted on September 24, 2013
Topic: Tweets for Keeps
Web scraping for the non-coder, Web security’s impact on journos, JTM offers a new frame for journalists today, prosecution of tabloid writers is bad for all, Daily News invests in tech startups
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Posted on September 16, 2013
Topic: Tweets for Keeps
Free open-source tool for searching social, cover letter tips for media hopefuls, digital-first approach to video pays off, tips to maximize link building, what readers should demand of journos
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Posted on September 11, 2013
Topic: Tweets for Keeps
