These are slides for workshops I have done on the Digital First workflow

1. Thinking & Working
#DigitalFirst
Steve Buttry
Daily Camera
December 13, 2011

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5. #DigitalFirst journalists …
• Work & think first for digital platforms
• Experiment & take risks
• Try new tools & techniques
• Cover news live
• Join community conversation
• Engage the community (digital, print, IRL)
• Are optimistic about journalism’s future

6. Court reporter
• Live-tweet from courtroom
(narrative, not a transcript)
• Feed tweets into liveblog
• Big development: Text news alert to
editor
• Write summary or analysis story for web
& print

9. Court reporter, no trial
• Traditional rounds:
lawyers, judges, clerks, filings
• Add #DigitalFirst rounds: monitor
tweets, search Twitter, Facebook groups
& pages
• Tweet/alert/blog big filings
• Video clips in interviews
• Scan or download docs if not online

10. Visual journalist
• Shoot first w/ smartphone & post
• Shoot w/ camera for slideshow & print
• Shoot video
• Record ambient sound, interviews
• If disaster, shoot some after shots for
before/after

11. Sports journalist
• Live-tweet or liveblog game
• Color commentary/analysis, rather than
play-by-play (especially if on TV)
• Interact w/ fans (polls, answer questions)
• Livestream post-game press conferences
• Post-game chat

13. Sports, not game day
• Video clips of interviews
• Frequent blog updates & tweets
• Data visualization of stats
• Alerts of breaking news
• Webcast and/or live chat

14. Beat reporter
• Beatblog
• Liveblog meetings, hearings, events
• Tweet/alert/liveblog breaking news
• Live chat on continuing stories
• Data visualization
• Curate community conversation

15. Beat reporter questions
• How to crowdsource story?
• What terms, hashtags should you search
(routinely & for each story)?
• Regular/special hashtags to use?
• People to follow? New FB pages/groups?
• Other social media to search
(YouTube, Flickr, Foursquare, Google+
…)?

16. Gathering news on the beat
• Video
• Links
• Databases
• Monitor officials, agencies, sources on
Twitter, Facebook, G+, YouTube, etc.
• Source documents to upload
• Map, timeline

17. Assigning editor
• Monitors social media as well as
wires, scanners, etc.
• Staff questions guide digital journalism
(data, Twitter
search, hashtags, crowdsourcing)
• Urgency for breaking news, live coverage
• Edits digital content for print

18. Senior editor
• Listen, join & lead community
conversation (blog, social media, chats)
• Lead staff in trying new tools &
techniques
• Digital focus to daily meetings
• Post daily news budgets online

20. Copy editor
• Social & Google searches to question &
verify facts
• Writes strong SEO headlines
• Crowdsources print headlines, news
judgments

22. Read more about it
• stevebuttry.wordpress.com
• slideshare.net/stevebuttry
• @stevebuttry
• jxpaton.wordpress.com