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.
How to use an anonymous source, FOIA website guidance, multi-platform collaboration, a web app for measuring real world impact, an alliance for journalist safety
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Posted on December 26, 2017
Topic: Tweets for Keeps
Top tools for data backup, tips for sharing analytics in the newsroom, coordinating a project across three platforms, the vibrant life of local news, humans still best source of stories
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Posted on December 11, 2017
Topic: Tweets for Keeps
An updated online handbook, tips for IDing the right KPIs, making open data relatable, $3 million in funds for nonprofit newsrooms, a whole town steps in to save one local paper
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Posted on November 28, 2017
Topic: Tweets for Keeps
Storytelling with “tweetstorms,” tips for laptop security, the future of nonprofit journalism, the benefits of crowdsourcing, collaboration to increase transparency
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Posted on October 2, 2017
Topic: Tweets for Keeps
How to ID a quality lead, tips for journo-coder collaboration, grants for untold stories, thoughtful reporting on mental health, students sharing success stories
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Posted on August 31, 2017
Topic: Tweets for Keeps
Tools to extract data from PDFs, optimizing your article lead, using reader power to up impact, broadcast news to “inspire and educate,” one man’s experience with driving digital change
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Posted on August 7, 2017
Topic: Tweets for Keeps
An app to test fake news judgement, best practices for IoT projects, animation in dataviz, international insight into smart cities, expanding reach through readership
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Posted on July 17, 2017
Topic: Tweets for Keeps
How and where to pitch your writing, tips for virtual reality storytelling, biz leaders talk balancing purpose and profit, New York Times announces buyout program for editors, a “brave new world” of open source
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Posted on June 2, 2017
Topic: Tweets for Keeps
Robust Google News Lab training resources, what engineers and marketers can learn from each other, innovative solutions to critical problems, the 2017 data scientist report, and a collaborative call for greater White House transparency.
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Posted on May 4, 2017
Topic: Tweets for Keeps
Forward-thinking photojournalism, tips for avoiding fake news, crisis creating unlikely collaboration, a report on government reporting, partnering to record refuge stories
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Posted on April 10, 2017
Topic: Tweets for Keeps