malachy browne 'finding facts in the heat of the moment
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@MalachyBrowne
Reported.ly
Finding facts in the heat
of the moment
#ASL2015
February 26, 2015
“Social media is not journalism. It’s information.
Journalism is what you do with it.”
- CJ Chivers, New York Times
What’s real?
SOURCE
DATE
LOCATION
VERIFICATION
SOURCE
CASE STUDY: Boston Marathon Bombing
storyful.
MORE
LOCATION
DATE
TOOLS
Free
Professional - €€€
Code your own
What is EXIF data?
Exchangeable Image File
exifdata.com
Storyful Multisearch - Chrome
Dataminr
Apigee
Organise the chaos
700,000 items shared per minute
100 hours per minute
Use LISTS to monitor
100,000 tweets per minute
INVESTIGATIVE CASE STUDIES
BELLINGCAT
Google Crisis Maps
Digital Humanitarians
Challenges
Disappearing archive (evidence locker)
Graphic footage
Safety
Perspective and representation - patriarchal cultures
Support for independent media
Opportunity
Making sense of more data
