While social media can help journalists find important information, it can be hard to find the signal in the noise. That's when geolocation tools can make a difference.
Just when newsrooms had started to figure out how six seconds of Vine footage could add to their reporting, Instagram decided to let users capture an eternity-like 15 seconds of video using any of 13 different filters.
Former Reuters social media editor Anthony De Rosa becomes top editor at Circa, which creates concise, mobile-only stories from a pool of articles, documents, tweets, reports, blogs and more, while fact-checking every point along the way.
Data journalists create a way to analyze Sina Weibo, how investing in long-form stories pays off for publishers, and more are found in this week's Digital Media Mash Up, produced by the Center for International Media Assistance.
Vine, Twitter’s app that lets you edit and share six seconds of video, is capitalizing on the current micro-video-sharing trend, but this iOS-only tool is leaving Android users out of the loop.
Each month, IJNet features an international journalist who exemplifies the
profession and has used the site to further his or her career. This
month's journalist is Khaled Safi, a blogger and media activist who won
the 2012 prize for best Arabic blog in the Deutsche Welle competition.
