Festival2012/Submit/Tips and tricks using digital journalism tools for newsgathering

• Title of session: Tips and tricks using digital journalism tools for newsgathering

   * Your name and affiliation: Sarah Marshall, technology editor, Journalism.co.uk
   * Session format: Learning Lab    

What will your session or activity allow people to make, learn or do?

Journalists and those interested in reporting will learn how to use digital journalism tools for newsgathering

   ===How do you see that working?===

We will take five news stories and use different tools to track down potential sources and verify facts. For example, we may want to find tweets originating in Benghazi the previous day, build a map of tweets sent with a particular hashtag from a given location, and we can then seek to verify images shared on social media.

   ===How will you deal with 5, 15, 50 participants?===

After a brief explanation of the various tools, we will work in groups to try out the techniques 5 participants: We will work together as one group 15 participants: We will work in three or four groups, each on a different news story or scenario 50 participants: We will split into groups of four or five to tackle different news stories

   ===How long within your session before someone else can teach this?===

Each trick and tool will take about five minutes to explain, 10 minutes to try out and then each person will be in a position to pass on the knowledge

   ===What do you see as outcomes after the festival?===

People with new skills will use them when researching and reporting