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Digital reporting

Social mediaCrowdsourcing for reportingMonitoring For trends, conversation, what is happening in community.Finding sourcesInspiration story ideas ExpectationsDigital reporter

CrowdsourcingCrowdsourcingJake Tapper of ABC News:

A health insurance company raised its premiums in California, affecting thousands of people. He sent a tweet out to his followers, asking if any of them were members.

@lemoneyes tweeted she was. He followed her, got her information through DM, emailed her, verified her situation and sent a camera crew to her.

The next morning she was on ABC's Good Morning America. There is no way I could have done that before.

CrowdsourcingDenver Post: Parents raiding their childrens credit during the recessionLooking for a 20-something person whose credit had been trashed by parents who had taken a social security number for loans and other credit servicesFound her through TwitterMonitoring with TwitterPicking the brains of smart people and influencers.

Great way to monitor news, events and happenings in your community.

Inspiration for story ideas.

Twitter listsA great way to organizeWho you follow Who follows youAccounts you may not officially follow but want to keep track of.

Beat reporters nirvana

Where to find good followersTwitter suggestions

Look at the followers of people you followFinding helpful people to follow Topsy idea-generatorWeFollow can search for experts, influencersTwellow a mixed bagListorious find followers and experts.Twiangulate discover inner circles.Socialmention real-time searchAdvanced Twitter search by subject or location Twitter listsYou can make your list private or public.Youre the only person who can see your private account. But because your account could be hacked, dont put confidential sources in public or private lists.Who to follow?When you follow someone, Twitter will suggest othersYou can add the followers of the people you followYou can follow the lists of others

How to find sources?You can follow the lists of others

Twitter listsNeed to be strategic

Need to be constantly adding and deleting.

MonitoringTwitter hashtagsCity University State government Schools

NELeg unicam Huskers OMA Nebraska16Your goalYoull want to focus on creating one place where you can stay current on events and be inspired.

Monitoring hashtagsHashtrackinghttp://www.hashtracking.com/fast-report/?hashtag=j491

Twitter reach: http://tweetreach.com/

Search: TwitterAdvanced Twitter search

Search operators

Real conversations (no links)

-filter:links

Breaking newsDuring breaking news, look for secondary hashtags

In a big breaking story, retweets and commentary around the country might quickly overtake the hashtag. To find local people tweeting what they saw or experienced, use advanced search to search the hashtag with a location filter close to the scene.

MonitoringReddit

Reddit community is generally smart and extraordinarily resourceful, which Denver Post found during Aurora shooting. (Dan Petty)

Petty watches the sub-Reddit for Denver closely.

http://www.reddit.com/reddits/

Search: FacebookFinding people

Real-time public posts

Contacting a source

Crowdsourcing asking for storm photos, for example.

Search: FacebookUnpredictable. Like a Google personalized search, but with a stronger reliance on social connections over any other ranking factors.It relies on exact match and lacks the flexibility advanced operators.Unlike Twitter search, you can't exclude one word while including another one. You can't filter results by location, etc.

Search: FacebookFacebook

Openstatussearch.comSearch: LinkedInAdvanced Searchto find contacts. Sort the results by degrees away from you and then request an introduction from one of your connections so that the source will be more comfortable with you.

Search: LinkedInLet the story come to you! Keeping an up-to-date, robustprofileensures that potential sources will find you when they are seeking to tell their story.Aska private question to your network to find the right inside connection or piece of information.LinkedIn for journalists

Local, local TwitZipBan.joHow a reporter used it.

Finding sources on the sceneFourSquare

Use Storify to search tweets by location.

Be proactiveBuild your credible online news source network before news breaks.

Map out connections between sources.Be productiveIFTTT

HootsuiteBe strategicCull, hone and perfect your feeds.