Australia’s Natural Disasters: Journalism and Social Media
Australia is a particularly disaster-prone country. With bushfires, floods, cyclones, severe storms and now fire tornados battering the continent every year, journalists and news outlets quickly learn...
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Topsy Pro Analytics: Harnessing the Firehose in an Emergency
In the last few weeks we have featured digital tools that can help journalists better understand the social dimensions of crises and disasters. This week we take a look at Topsy Pro Analytics, a social...
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Predicting the Credibility of Disaster Tweets Automatically
This article was written by Patrick Meier and originally published at iRevolution on 3 December, 2012. Republished with permission. “Predicting Information Credibility in Time-Sensitive Social Media”...
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It Happened Again: Media and Twitter During Earthquakes in Japan
Updated: 15:34 CET on 8 December, 2012 At 17:18 local time today, another big quake of a 7.3 magnitude struck the East coast of Japan, followed by a one meter high tsunami that was being recorded in...
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Debating the Value of Tweets For Disaster Response (Intelligently)
This article was written by Patrick Meier and originally published at iRevolution on 17 December, 2012. Republished with permission. With every new tweeted disaster comes the same old question: what...
View ArticleGoogle & Storyful: Talking Journalism, Social Media and Verification
Despite a brief outage dubbed the “G-pocalypse”, Storyful and Google held a successful online hangout in December 2012 to discuss “the continued challenges faced by journalists trying to verify content...
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5 Steps to Verifying User-Generated Content
This article was written by Jenny Hauser and originally published at EJC.NET on 14 January, 2013. Republished with permission. When young Arabs took to the streets of North Africa in 2011 to fight for...
View ArticleReport –‘Connecting the Last Mile: The Role of Communications in the Great...
It’s been exactly 2 years since Japan, the island country in the Far East, found itself in the middle of a mega-disaster in March of 2011. On the occasion of the two year anniversary of this triple...
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After Tsunami, Japanese Media Swept up in Wave of Distrust
This article was written by Ginko Kobayashi, and originally published on 15 March, 2013 at EJC.NET. Republished with permission. Until about 10 years ago, the Japanese term “masu-gomi” – rubbishy mass...
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‘Newsroom & Emergency Coverage’: Panel Session at the School of Data...
Following the first successful edition last year, the European Journalism Centre and the Open Knowledge Foundation will hold another round of Europe’s biggest data journalism event, the School of Data...
View ArticleFeatured Tool: Ushahidi
1) In a nutshell Tool: Ushahidi, meaning “witness” or “testimony” in Swahili, is an open-source mapping tool to easily crowdsource and visualise information on an interactive map. The result is a near...
View ArticleNewsgathering Tools
News gathering in the digital age faces both opportunities and challenges. While the journalists can tap into more contents on the web, there is an issue with ‘discovery’; it is difficult to find the...
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LocalData: Empowering Communities and Legitimising Citizen-Based Datasets
This article was written by Moran Barkai , and originally published on 22 February, 2013 at Data Driven Journalism. Republished with permission. Amplify Labs is a small start-up of three: Matt Hampel,...
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Boston Bombings to Hurricane Sandy: Volunteer Community Responds to Bridge...
In the past week, we witnessed a series of natural and man-made emergencies in the world varying from the Boston Marathon bombings to the devastating earthquake in Sichuan, as well as hundreds of...
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Dutch App Enables Context Curation
This article was written by Gemma van der Kamp, and originally published in the EJC magazine on 1 April, 2013. Republished with permission. Online information has become abundant, making it sometimes...
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Revisiting the Age of ‘Big Data’
The so-called topic of ‘Big Data’ has been creating quite a buzz recently. But what does it really mean? What are the possibilities as well as the challenges that it poses? In an article from 2012,...
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Big Data & Newsroom: Random Hacks of Kindness Hackathon in Belgium on 1-2 June
Through the Emergency Journalism initiative, the European Journalism Centre (EJC) has focused on bettering the newsroom information workflow during humanitarian crises in the past few months. One of...
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Results: Analyzing 2 Million Disaster Tweets from Oklahoma Tornado
This article was written by Patrick Meier and originally published at iRevolution on 29 May, 2013. Republished with permission. Thanks to the excellent work carried out by my colleagues Hemant Purohit...
View ArticleAFP’s Social Media Strategy: From the Ground to the Newsroom
Personalisation is crucial when it comes to the use of social media. As Steve Buttry points out, journalists’ individual use can play an important role in finding sources, building trust through...
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Egypt: How Media Responded After Morsi’s Ousting
June 30th: the first anniversary of Islamist President Mohamed Morsi since he was voted the first president after the January 25 revolution. Egyptians flooded to the street, calling for Morsi to step...
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