Slides for a discussion of digital-first news coverage at the Journalism, Leadership & Management Conference at Iowa State University.

1. Digital First
News Coverage
Steve Buttry
Journalism, Leadership & Management Conference
June 21, 2013
#jlmc13

2. Live coverage
• Use liveblogging tools: ScribbleLive,
CoverItLive, LiveblogPro, Twitter widgets
• Livetweet & Tout from events, breaking
news scenes
• Livestream video
• Crowdsource
• Curate social media (Storify, Spundge)

3. Multi-platform coverage
• Create content for digital platforms
(web, email, SMS, social, mobile)
• Produce print & broadcast products from
content on digital platforms

4. Verify, verify, verify
• Speed matters, but …
• If you don’t get it right, you didn’t get it
first
• Seek verification from the community
• Read before you tweet (beware of typos
& autocorrects)

5. TCU’s digital-first news
(slides courtesy of Andrew Chavez)

6. OUR JOURNALISM
Storiesevolve in real-time

7. OUR JOURNALISM
Storiesevolve in real-time
An email goes out:
Several students were
arrested overnight; Press
conference coming soon
:
TheTCU drugbust

8. OUR JOURNALISM
Storiesevolve in real-time:
TheTCU drugbust
A story was online
within minutes

9. OUR JOURNALISM
Storiesevolve in real-time:
TheTCU drugbust
Students streamed live
video

10. OUR JOURNALISM
Storiesevolve in real-time:
TheTCU drugbust
T hey updated
the website
almost 100
times

11. OUR JOURNALISM
Storiesevolve in real-time:
TheTCU drugbust
And brought in
100,000+
pageviews

12. OUR JOURNALISM
Documents
uploaded for
public view

13. OUR JOURNALISM
Documents
uploaded for
public view
T he story is fed
back to the
newspaper
And to the TCU
N ews N ow
newscast.