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.
Twenty tools and apps to up productivity, finding new angles for news, lessons on audience engagement, blogs for journos by journos, smart collaboration connects reporters to sources
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People & Collaboration
Posted on August 21, 2014
Topic: Tweets for Keeps
Tools and tips for social media best practices; Twitter research reveals “Global Superdialects;” how audiences feel about native ads; and on the flipside, how editors feel about audience comments
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People & Collaboration
Posted on August 12, 2014
Topic: Tweets for Keeps
5 tools to liven up wordy articles, production tips for radio journos, NPR’s new news curation ap, the “newsonmomics of how and why,” community collaboration cracks revenue challenge
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People & Collaboration
Posted on August 5, 2014
Topic: Tweets for Keeps
Self-taught journo skills, digi-storytelling best practices, industry pros predict journalism’s future, a day in the life of BBC news, public media collaboration sparks new ops
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Posted on July 31, 2014
Topic: Tweets for Keeps
Vital writing skills for broadcast journos, clever tips for Google search, innovative projects from around the globe, ways digi-cash is changing lives, lessons from making a historical documentary
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Posted on July 21, 2014
Topic: Tweets for Keeps
Fundraising for media nonprofits, growing the next gen of foreign correspondents, problem-solving with crowdfunding, exploring dataviz psychology, incorporating data journalism in the classroom
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People & Collaboration
Posted on July 15, 2014
Topic: Tweets for Keeps
Updated resources for j-students, tips for interviewing vets, crowd-powered reporting, exploring nonprofit news success, expertise from a media rights staff attorney
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People & Collaboration
Posted on July 8, 2014
Topic: Tweets for Keeps
Social media image use, tips and links from the 2014 IRE conference, a thriving publisher-university partnership, dataviz teaching techniques, digital media events you don’t want to miss
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People & Collaboration
Posted on July 3, 2014
Topic: Tweets for Keeps
A public record request generator tool, new ways to verify social media, paving the path to transparency, the process behind press passes, new newsroom calls out corporate influence on our food
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People & Collaboration
Posted on June 22, 2014
Topic: Tweets for Keeps
Conquering challenges for community papers, ethical social media use, lessons from the new media startup boom, digital report reveals consumption trends, using comics to show, not tell, the news
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Posted on June 17, 2014
Topic: Tweets for Keeps
