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Update: [Jan-17, 2013]: Accuracy ChecklistUpdate: [Jan-16, 2013]: Business Models
Update: [Jan-05, 2013]: Human assisted reporting, Automation/Algorithm based curation, watermarks
Update: [Jan-04, 2013]: Paywalls
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Accuracy Checklist
Accuracy Checklist - Craig Silverman published a checklist you can use to avoid errors in reporting
(Enterprise) Analytics
Bit.ly - URL shortner; offers an enterprise analytics platform that helps web publishers and brands grow their social media traffic (e.g. used by Huffington Post)
Chartbeat - Real-time analytics tool to measure engagement with content instead of PageImpressions, views only. Currently used by TechCrunch, Poynter, CNNMoney, Nieman Lab, The New York Times, and Wired.
Google Analytics - no doubt a cool tool and beautiful interface. Since Google has offers real time data of your websites, you might not have to use Chartbeat anymore
Juxta Commons - Juxta is a free tool that allows you to compare and collate versions of the same textual work (e.g. "Mitt Romney" Wikipedia page comparison)
Audio
Audioboo - a mobile & web platform that allows you to record and share audio (e.g.: BBC Radio Cornwall)
jPlayer - allows you to rapidly weave cross platform audio and video into your web pages (e.g. used for Al Jazeera's video transcripts of the Presidential debates)
PopcornJS - an HTML5 media framework written in JavaScript for filmmakers, web developers, and anyone who wants to create time-based interactive media on the web (NPR used PopcornJS to explore William Carlos’ 'Summer Song')
VoiceBunny - Fred Wilson, "A VC" uses its voice service to offer audio recordings of his musings. To get an idea of the quality you can visit his AVC.fm site, the unofficial Fred Wilson podcast site.
Automation / Algorithm Based Tools (=> "Robot Journalism")
NewsDiffs.org - Shows readers how stories evolve and change over time. The service currently tracks nytimes.com, cnn.com, politico.com and the bbc.co.uk.
Newssniffer.co.uk - As NewsDiff a free service to track article modifications.
Summly - Mobile apps which summarize news for you. The algorithmically generated summaries make use of Artificial Intelligence and Natural Language Processing and learn over time.
- Similar to Summly. Uses also natural language processing to summarize news. You can test it simply be installing the bookmarklet, it offers for standard browsers.
SuBMoJour - Looking for financially sustainable business model for journalism startup? Browse case studies below and find one that suits your site.
Citizen Journalism
Reddit - used for live-"blogging" (Aurora Theater shooting, Sikh Temple Oak Creek shooting)
Community Management
Adaptive Semantics "Julia" - system that maintains your community standards, rewards engagement, and includes member reports and profiling (e.g. used by Huffington Post)
Content Curation
Liquid Newsroom - (not public) a platform for real-time news curation and ultra-fast editing
Publish2 - content re-packaging and curation tool and platform, local advertising
ScribbleLive - platform and tools for live blogging and real-time news
Storify - compose your social media stories
Storyful - a newsgathering platform
Country Switch / Geographical content filters
TunnelBear - Access content from countries if geographical filters apply (e.g. some used it to watch BBC's Olympic coverage or iPlayer although not living in the UK)
Data Journalism
Data Journalism Handbook - started at the Mozilla Festival in 2011, the handbook has contributions from some of the best in the business; online free, but you can also order a printed version
Headline a/b tests
Twitter - You can run a/b headline tests with the help of Twitter (how? Chris Wilson explains; Huffington Posts uses it as well); a/b tests were used if you want to see which of two options a and b perform better
Live Reporting
liveu.tv - TV Stations can go live/feed video (even HD/SD) from any location withouth expensive live truck (Washington Post used it at the RNC)
Maps and Mapping Services
TileMill - Open source and free design studio you need to create interactive maps (desktop versions: Mac OS X, Ubuntu, Windows); You can access dozens of useful public datasources with the built-in MapBox Geodata browser. You can embed graphics, images and create hover tooltips and clickable pop ups with UTF-8 grid technology.MapBox Streets - A global map with street level detail
MapBoxSatellite - Data processed from USGS’s Landsat archive and state NAIP aerial imagery programs. (PBS Mediashift: published some map examples)
Paywalls
Tinypass - Andrew Sullivan plans to re-launch "The Dish" and introduce the meter on February, using its technology.
Plagiarism detection (in education)
Turnitin - OriginalityCheck checks papers against 20 billion web pages, 220 million student papers and 90,000 publications; GradeMark provides rich feedback on student written work; PeerMark improves student writing by engaging them in the peer review process. (Taken from the site)
iThenticate - Targeting: professional writing, scholarly research; includes a database of more than 31 million articles and 67,664 books and journals
More: Mashable: "Use These 10 Sites to Detect Plagiarism"
Podcastomatic.com - converts your favourite blog into a podcast feed using text-to-speech technology
Photos / Pics
Animated Gif's - used for storytelling during the London Olympics 2012 The Atlantic and Buzzfeed
Instagram - used by AP for "Instagram on the trail" coverage of the presidential election 2012 (US)
Marksta - iOS app to add a watermark to iPhone photos
Twitpic - share photos with the Twittersphere (e.g. Janis Krums photo of the Hudson river plane crash)
Real-time search
Topsy.com - real-time search engine for the social web; (e.g. used to track the history of tweets when @ReutersTech account was hacked and changed to @ReutersMe)
Tame - see also "Trend Monitoring" below: the search box allows you to evaluate hot topics in real time as well; the tool identifies links to sources and people mentioned in the tweets
Robot Journalism
Narrative Science - "The 2-year-old company can turn data from sporting events and financial reports into articles that look like they were written by human reporters." (Source: Investors.com)
Discussion:
Emily Bell: "The robot journalist: an apocalypse for the news industry?"
Steven Levy: "Can an Algorithm Write a Better News Story Than a Human Reporter?"
Ben Welsh "Human assisted reporting. How to create robot reporters in your own image" [video]
Trauma / catastrophy reporting
Handbook: "Covering Children & Trauma" - Yet few journalists have experience interviewing children for routine stories, let alone when tragedy hits. What ground rules apply?
"Mass Shooting at Connecticut Elementary School," The Dart Center has a host of resources and tips for journalists who are tasked with covering tragedy on this scale below.
What happens if you leave the scene? "Returning From Newtown: How Journalists Leave a Tragedy," The Dart Center has compiled the following tips to help journalists upon returning from Newtown
"How News Coverage Has Changed Since the 9/11 Attacks," Glenn Halbrooks, About.com
Techniques: Scraping
Read more about Scraping here (by Paul Bradshaw). He has written an ebook "Scraping for journalists" as well.
OutWitHub - Explores the depths of the Web for you, automatically collecting and organizing data and media from online sources
Google Refine - tool for working with "messy data," can grab webpages, too (how it works screencasts here)
ScraperWiki - a web-based platform or data hub, where programmers write scripts to get, clean and analyse data sets - used by e.g The Guardian
Trend Monitoring
NewsWhip - Social feed monitoring
Social Amplifier - List your most social content
Spike - English language news trending on social networks
Tame - If you like to understand what's trending among your followers (# hashtag analysis) over a period of time (testing it myself)
Twitter tools
Save Publishing - a nice bookmarklet which helps you figure out a quote in an article which would not exceed the allowed <140 character space you have in a single Tweet
Typography
Kaikkonen Design - an interactive guide to improve the typography of your blog, by @tommikaikkonen
Video / Streaming
Bambuser - to live stream video (e.g.: was used during Arab Spring)
iMovie - to edit your video footage (e.g.: j-school tutorials)
Snapz Pro X - record anything on your screen, saving it as a QuickTime® movie or screenshot (e.g. animated GIFs for Olympic Games London 2012)
jPlayer - allows you to rapidly weave cross platform audio and video into your web pages (e.g. used by Al Jazeera video transcripts of the Presidential election 2012: first, second, third , fourth debate)
PopCornJS - HTML5 media framework written in JavaScript for filmmakers, web developers, and anyone who wants to create time-based interactive media on the web (e.g. used by Al Jazeera video transcripts of the Presidential election 2012: first, second, third , fourth debate)
Video Streaming / Broadcast
Livestream broadcaster - portable wireless encoder for your own video live streams
YouTube - to host your videos or to launch your own news channel
Visualization of data
Processing.js - The JavaScript library makes your data visualizations, digital art, interactive animations, educational graphs, video games, etc. work using web standards and without any plug-ins (e.g. infographic that takes realtime tweets and split them by nationality)
D3.js - a JavaScript library for manipulating documents based on data (e.g. connections between US airports)
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