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Live BloggingChallenges and opportunities of live reporting in the social media age
TT Digital Day, Stockholm, 4 December 2015
Professor Neil [email protected] @neilthurman
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+40%
Source: REUTERS INSTITUTE DIGITAL NEWS REPORTS
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9%
0%
1%
2%
3%
4%
5%
6%
7%
8%
9%
10%
Accessed a live blog in previous week
Source: REUTERS INSTITUTE DIGITAL NEWS REPORTS
+28%
2014 2015
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Source: REUTERS INSTITUTE DIGITAL NEWS REPORTS
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Live page Video Audio
January 2014
Types of online news content
accessed in previous week (Japan)
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Weekly news access via SMARTPHONES
32% 57%
Source: REUTERS INSTITUTE DIGITAL NEWS REPORTS
+78%
2012 2015
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Challenges
• Little time for factual verification?
• Trivialise news?
• Confuse readers?
• No time for the basics?
Opportunities
• Rebuilt trust?
• Participation?
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“looser culture of corroboration”
Corroborate --
vb1.( tr ) to confirm or support (facts, opinions, etc), esp by
providing fresh evidence: the witness corroborated the
accused's statement
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Verification
• Matt Wells: if something “might be quite important”
but cannot be verified by the news organisation it is
okay to “flag it up” and ask the audience “to help
verify it” (Guardian journalist).
• Paul Lewis: if “we’re not sure whether or not this is
true … don’t put it out. Our job is to find out
whether or not it’s true, not to put it out and ask
people to decide for us” (Guardian journalist).
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Usability
Reuters Institute Digital News Survey 2013, UK sample.
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Provide
Context
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Provide Context
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Live blogs – no time for the basics?
“There is still a need for self-contained,
structured reporting and analysis, and for
narrative storytelling, but its relationship with the
live stream is still developing. We are still working to
understand how they can best complement one
another and how the two can be blended together
when appropriate. And, for newsrooms, what the
implications are of trying to do both”
-- Steve Herrman, editor BBC News Online.
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Challenges
• Little time for factual verification?
• Trivialise news?
• Confuse readers?
• No time for the basics?
Opportunities
• Rebuilt trust?
• Participation?
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Live pages’ balance & accuracy:
UK readers’ attitudes
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“the person
writing it is less
likely to have
an angle”
“less opinion based
and more factual...I
feel more
empowered to make
up my own mind”
Live pages – trust and objectivity
“I trust it more
than some
articles...most
of it’s not
opinion, it’s
more fact
based.”
“I’m more engaged in news than I have
been for years. For me it’s about being
able to make up my own mind.”
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Objectivity
Verification
Transparency
Supporting Evidence
Balance
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Supporting Evidence
0
2
4
6
8
10
12
14
16
18
Live Blogs Traditional articles
(Thurman and Walters 2013: 91) (Stray 2010)
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Making corrections
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Challenges
• Little time for factual verification?
• Trivialise news?
• Confuse readers?
• No time for the basics?
Opportunities
• Rebuilt trust?
• Increased reader participation?
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Likelihood to participate
0
2
4
6
8
10
12
14
16
18
20
Live Blogs Other article types
%
Source: Thurman and Walters (2012), n=189
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“other people are on at the
same time and will be reading it
… so there might be some
response to what you write”
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0
10
20
30
40
50
60
BostonMarathonBombings
(n=3)
2012-13 Egyptprotests (n=2)
Birth of PrinceGeorge (n=3)
Wimbledon2013 (n=3)
Guardian.co.uk(Thurman &
Walters, 2012)
Virginia Tech(Wigley andFontenot,
2009)
Tucson,Arizona
shootings(Wigley andFontenot,
2011)
% user-generated content
Guardian
live
blogs
Newspapers
& TV news
websites
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“If you get any more than a hundred comments it becomes
impossible to write the live blog and read the comments”
Matt Wells
Andrew Sparrow – works “with a relatively narrow patch of usual
suspects”
Matthew Weaver: “I’ll be doing Syria or Yemen, and I won’t be
looking at generic search terms, I’ll be looking at lists of
people who we know are there”
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Social Sensor
Geofeedia
Spike
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• Identify original news on social
media
• Assess the reliability of social
media contributors
• Identify trends
• Updates on running stories
• Identify sentiment
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Geofeedia
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• Identify original news on social
media?
• Assess the reliability of social
media contributors
• Identify trends
• Updates on running stories
• Identify sentiment
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Source: Osborn, M. and Dredze, M (2014) Facebook, Twitter and Google Plus for Breaking News: Is
there a winner? Proceedings of the Eight International AAAI Conference on Weblogs and Social Media.
etc
Broke
1st or
1st=
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• Identify original news on social
media
• Assess the reliability of social
media contributors?
• Identify trends
• Updates on running stories
• Identify sentiment?
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And test=
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Metric
Number of tweets
Number of retweets
Number of followers
Ratio of followers/following
Verified by Twitter
Frequency
Popularity
Weighting
1
2
4
3
5
2
5
Calculating Social Media Contributors’ Credibility in Social Sensor
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9%
0%
1%
2%
3%
4%
5%
6%
7%
8%
9%
10%+28%
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Objectivity
Verification
Transparency
Supporting Evidence
Balance
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