The new offerings, all aimed at extending the use of Twitter content, enhance some of its existing tools and involve new partnerships with a number of companies.
Location-finding geotags help reporters find leads, tips and interviews for breaking stories. However, the practice is limited because geotags are not widely used on social media.
The Associated Press wants to enable a greater variety help more news outlets use data journalism. With a $400,000 grant from the Knight Foundation, AP will increase its distribution of data sets and add data practices to its 2017 stylebook.
The digital media futurist presented her newest “really cool stuff” at ONA15 in Los Angeles last week. Her eighth presentation at ONA closed out the conference’s formal sessions with robots and immersive experiences such as the new Leia 3-D.
App users are the fastest growing segment of digital media and spend more time on their mobile devices, but desktop and mobile browsers drive audience growth, according to a new report.
A few of ONA15’s best take aways about diversity are available before its annual conference convenes this week in Los Angeles. The organization is sharing lessons learned from its own experiences to broaden its staff, speakers, events and topics.
The effort signals the crowdfunding startup’s move toward issue-oriented projects, matching funds and partnerships with news groups, foundations and associations.
The two initiatives come under the umbrella of MuckRock Projects. They are designed to provide a way to track reporting projects that use public records and the Freedom of Information Act, and to help raise new funds for independent journalism.
The Women’s Hackathon, devoted entirely to female students, faculty and professionals, will be held October 9-11 at the USC Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism in Los Angeles.