I have been leading workshops this week at Digital First newsrooms in the Los Angeles area. The workshop varies in each newsroom, depending on questions and issues the journalists raise. Here are some links that supplement the discussions we’ve had:
Engagement
Tips on liveblogging for journalists
Facebook news feed changes mean newsrooms need new engagement strategies
Using Google Voice for multimedia projects
Pottstown Mercury’s wanted-poster-style Pinboard is resulting in arrests
Attribution
You can quote me on that: advice on attribution for journalists
Plagiarism and Fabrication Summit: Journalists need to use links to show our work
4 reasons why linking is good journalism; 2 reasons why linking is good business
A quiz to teach journalists about plagiarism and attribution
Social media
Whether I use slides in the workshop depends on whether we’ve had projection available. And I’ve skipped around in the slides in the workshops, so different groups saw different slides. But these are the slides I used:
The Buttry Diary 