This document discusses various social media tools that can be used for reporting, including Facebook, Twitter, and apps. It provides information on using hashtags and lists on Facebook and Twitter, how to search each platform, trends features, alerts, and mapping tools to find sources. The document also lists several apps that can be helpful for tasks like listening to police scanners, tracking social media chatter, editing video, recording interviews, note-taking, and translating.
20. LinkedIn
Find and vet potential news sources
Premium account will give you more results and a
way to contact those that you’re not connected to on
LinkedIn
21. Social collections
RebelMouse
Automatic curation of your social accounts & RSS
feeds - Twitter, FB, Pinterest, Instagram, Google+
Searches and pulls chosen hashtags
Edit and arrange posts
Embed into website
Free & pricing plans
28. Apps
•FACEBOOK PAGE MANAGER
•TWITTER for single account
•TWEETCASTER for Android for multiple accounts
•TWEETBOT for iPhone for multiple accounts
•SCANNER RADIO: Listen to police scanners near and far.
•SOUNDNOTE- records audio and allows you to make notes that
are linked into the timecode. (Good for logging interviews if you
hit record on camera and iPad at the same time.)
29. Apps
•BANJO: Track social media chatter around breaking news
locations near you or far away
•iMovie for iPhone: easy way to edit video
•Splice for iOS or Android: trimming, cropping video
•¡ENG: Multi-media platform where you can record video or still
pictures then send them into the newsroom FTP seamlessly
•SocialCam, Viddy, Vine, Instagram: social video sharing
30. Apps
•Evernote for iOS, Android & web: the organizer of your life and
perhaps also of your team
•Google Keep, OneNote, Springboard: alternative note taking
and file sharing apps
•Google Drive for iOS and Android, syncs files across platforms
•Dropbox iOS: free, syncs your Mac and PC files
31. apps
•FLIGHT TRACKER: Tracks airplanes in the sky live through the
camera lens with number of passengers make of airplane, origin
and destination.
•PF AIR: Tracks airplanes in the sky live through the camera lens
with number of passengers, make of airplane, origin and
destination.
•LiveATC: Listen to air traffic controllers anywhere in the world
32. apps
•ROAD NINJA (IPhone): Terrific app to show food, lodging, & gas
stations at exits while on the road.
•CAM SCANNER: snap pictures of documents and turn them
into PDF’s for easy sharing
•JOTNOT PRO: scan documents to create PDF’s
•SAYHI: Universal translator
•DRAGON DICTATION: Dictate your notes with voice and it
transcribes it for you
•VIRTUAL FIREFOX: for using Flash on iPad
33. Social Media as reporting tool
by: @MistyMontano
9NEWS Digital Content Manager
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