7. Breaking News Tweeting
• Consult with your staff to develop a
hashtag (if there isn't one)
• If more than one person is tweeting, pull
in their tweets to your site
8. When Live-Tweeting
• Warn followers in advance
• Mix play-by-play with context,
background
• Mix in photos, quotes
• Take questions when it’s possible
• Note long pauses
9. Newsroom Workflow
• Reporters tweet/liveblog details,
quotes and media
• Web producers/editors start a
story from those tweets
• Reporters use tweets as notes to
write longer form
10. Search by keywords, location, time
Can be done in desktop, mobile apps
Search quickly - before the stream is taken
over by reaction
Search.Twitter.Com
11. When You Find Leads
• Connect with eyewitnesses, get contact
info
• Have them wait for a reporter on scene
• Verify!
27. EXERCISE
• Write a post on this session in email.
Publish by email to chekrat776@tumblr.com
• Take photos or audio. Publish by email
to chekrat776@tumblr.com.
• Send tweets with hashtag #PNTmobile
Android is the most common smartphone platform, followed by iPhone and Blackberry devices
83% own cell phones
2011
Who is on Twitter?
Best tool for mobile news
Report directly from the scene
Regular people do it too
Verification is important
We’ll start with some examples of why Twitter is a valuable breaking-news tool. Most will, of course, remember that Twitpic had the first shot of the Hudson landing.
You can pull in via Twitter's widget or CoveritLive, Scribble Live
Search for local keywords, especially when news is happening
Demo it with your phone
live video from a scene
embed your channel online
save videos
publish to youtube/Twitter/FB
UStream works in similar fashion
syncs notes across all devices
share and collaborate on notes with others
record audio and take notes at the same time
Free
live chats
multiple participants
can add audio, video and photos in real time
great for live events
readers can ask questions too
# do with sources
# staff
Show off Zville story
Blogging on the go.
Advanced looking sites
Blogging on the go
Can blog by audio calls
DRAGON
Publish by Email
Easy without an app
Press 4 to record call
announces to everyone it is recording
saves as an mp3
Free texts, transcribed voicemails
Can get a local #
Access your computers from iPhone, iPad
See them as if you were there
Free, but to move files around you need to upgrade to $40 option
Also can use on Desktop
Access files on the go, across computers
Can even share as a group
Great for shared reporter docs and media
Works on computer too
trends not an app
search in most twitter apps
Instapaper app
save long stories for offline
Research to read later