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How to: analyse your Twitter or Facebook analytics for the best days or times...
image by Uncalno Tekno Twitter’s analytics service is a useful tool for journalists to understand which tweets are having the biggest impact. The dashboard at analytics.twitter.com provides a general...
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How journalists manage information: from leads to stories
Tools for managing feeds, contacts and archives are merging5 years ago I wrote about a network infrastructure for journalists working online. I explained how RSS readers, social networks and social...
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7 platforms who became publishers in 2016
In 2016 Tumblr got angryIf there was always a suspicion that it would happen eventually, this year it was confirmed: in 2016 platforms from Facebook to Snapchat, Twitter to Tumblr, all took significant...
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Someone asked me about 2016 and 2017. This is what I said
Crystal ball image by Christian R. Hamacher Every year Nic Newman asks a bunch of people for their reflections on the last 12 months and their anticipations for the year ahead. Here’s what I’ve said...
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Filter burst: Read Across The Aisle
In a new series of interviews, Andrew Brightwell talks to the innovators fighting the polarising force of social media filter bubbles. First up, Read Across The Aisle – an app that monitors the...
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AllSides’s John Gable: from the Dark Ages of the internet to bursting bubbles
AllSides uses a bias rating system As part of a series of articles on the innovators tackling the filter bubble phenomenon, Andrew Brightwell interviews John Gable, founder and CEO of AllSides, a...
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Facebook launch a new safety for journalists initiative – but there’s...
Facebook has launched a new initiative in partnership with a number of journalism organisations to help journalists “protect their accounts and themselves on Facebook.” The Facebook Safety for...
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Got a new laptop? Here’s how to maintain your privacy from the start
privacy (CC BY-SA 2.0) image by g4ll4is When you get a new laptop – with no cookies on it! – it’s a great opportunity to start afresh and protect your privacy online by default. As I recently got a...
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What changed in 2017 — and what we can expect in 2018 (maybe)
Because he sends me an email every December, Nic Newmanhas a tag all of his own on this blog. So as this year’s email lands in my inbox here’s my annual reply around what I’ve noticed in the last 12...
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Here are 9 ways to find stories in company accounts (and only three of them...
This week I’m teaching students on my MA in Multiplatform and Mobile Journalism and MA in Data Journalism how to find stories in company accounts — so I thought it would be a good time to share just...
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