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How to verify information from tweets: Check it out

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“Your job is to verify the information that looks useful. As with all the other information you gather, you can verify lots of different ways, and no single technique works for everything.”

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The real story in the NSA scandal is the collapse of journalism

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The real story in the NSA scandal is the collapse of journalism ZDNet The primary author of the story, Barton Gellman, is a Pulitzer Prize winner, and the Washington Post has a history in investigative journalism that goes back to Watergate and All…

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A new kind of activist journalism: When finding solutions are part of journalists’ job, too

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The executive director of J-Lab says it’s time for news to move from a commodity to a catalyst for empowering citizens.

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Il gene ribelle: Data Journalism: finalmente una “terza cultura”?

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Essere giornalisti non vuol dire soltanto scrivere. Per fare informazione, non è più sufficiente avere un bello stile: oltre alle conoscenze letterarie, servono anche quelle tecniche. Ciò non significa necessariamente essere esperti di una “disciplina”, anzi spesso è più utile il contrario: abbracciare diversi settori culturali, appartenenti tanto all’umanesimo quanto alle scienze. L’uso dei numeri, poi, facilita di molto il lavoro del reporter, da un lato fornendo solide basi per i suoi reportage, dall’altro permettendogli di illustrare in modo più accattivante i suoi risultati.

Tutto questo è “Data Journalism”.
Un approccio all’informazione che, attraverso l’uso di database, mappe digitali e software di analisi, racconta una notizia o un fenomeno con un output visivo, spesso fondendo i diversi elementi a disposizione dell’autore.

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Why the Guardian has ‘given bloggers the keys’ to its website

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The Guardian’s new environment blog network brings writers from around the world to add expert commentary alongside news reporting

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How Social Networks Are Redefining Journalism

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“… community manager Meghan Peters discussed how social networks are evolving their content strategies, with Jessica Bennett, editorial director at Tumblr, and Daniel Roth, executive editor at LinkedIn.

“Both editors come from traditional journalism backgrounds. Bennett was formerly an editor at Newsweek, and Roth worked at Fortune. Bennett said that Tumblr’s traffic is three times that of The New York Times and CNN. There are more than 80 million blogs and 170 million users, more than 50% of whom are under 30.”

(Published Dec. 4, 2012.)

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How to configure app to send news with agency format

settings

On settings –>Mail –> Fast mail configure gesture to send in “fast mode”

On Settings –>Mail –> Gesture  —-> Select In-app mail (agency format)

On Settings –>Mail –> Attachment Name configure name of document send with “fast mode”

On Settings –>Mail–> Body –>  You can configure your agency format (Telex)

A text of agency format  provides a structure like this:

ZCZC
text
NNNN

where ZCZC indicates the beginning and  NNNN indicates the end of a news.

Here’s an generic example of how to configure
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Digital and the the desire for long form journalism

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Rather than entering a new age of distraction and superficiality, digital disruption is actually increasing demand for news and long form stories…

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