Andy Bull

Freelance multimedia journalism tutor and consultant, author and feature writer. Author of Multimedia journalism: A Practical Guide. Specialising, as a consultant and trainer, in social media strategy; fostering innovation in publishing companies; writing and editing for the web; creating, managing and improving websites; Web 3.0; and managing user-generated content.

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Feedly: a better alternative to Scoop.it as a curation platform

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Scoop.it is no longer the ideal curation platform that it once was. You are now limited to 50 posts on the free version which, if you take their recommendation that you post 10 items a day, means you can only host five days of material on the platform. 

 In theory you can set Scoop.it to automatically delete your oldest post as you add each new one, but I found this didn’t work. So, if you decide to stick with Scoop.it’s free version, you have to manually delete your oldest posts regularly. 

 This was the last straw for me with Scoop.it, which has become progressively harder to use over recent months.

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How to Schedule Instagram Posts – Buffer — Social –

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As Instagram has grown it’s become an integral marketing channel for more than five million businesses worldwide. But as a busy social media manager, it can be difficult to find the time to…

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Why do reporters take the risk to start a media business? These answers might surprise you.

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After more than three dozen interviews with experts, I believe to a greater extent than ever that there is a growing acknowledgement and excitement that the media ecosystem of tomorrow — in the U.S…

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Learn Photoshop for Free Through These 14 Online Resources

See on Scoop.it - brandjournalism Adobe Photoshop is considered the gold standard in photo editing software. In fact, it can be hard to picture (see what I did there) a world without the amazing images created with this software. In…

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Article show | IFCD

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On April Fools’ Day, real news organizations used to publish fake news.The Capital Times reported in 1933 tha

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'Timestamps' feature makes Twitter the news site it was always meant to be

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Twitter today introduced Timestamps, which allows users to share both live videos and recorded ones from a certain point. It’s essentially the same as the timestamp option on YouTube’s share button. Timestamps roll out today for the iOS and Android apps, as well as Periscope. According to Twitter, it implemented this feature in response to …

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How payment on publication is making life a misery for many freelance journalists – Press Gazette

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Press Gazette has been reporting on British journalism without fear or favour since 1965. Our mission is to provide a news and information service which helps the UK journalism.

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Why (almost) everything reported about the Cambridge Analytica Facebook ‘hacking’ controversy is…

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A summary of the technical info you need to know in order to properly understand the Cambridge Analytica story.

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Is a CMS Out there that Journalists Actually Love? – Journalism Innovation –

See on Scoop.it - brandjournalism After a semi-successful crowdfunding campaign you take a small step back and you ask yourself: “Now what?” You have enough money to start, but not enough to deliver the fully fledged product you…

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Civil: Self-Sustaining Journalism – Civil: Self-Sustaining Journalism –

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Journalism needs a radically new operating paradigm. Media innovation and consumer behavior trends over the past 20 years have eroded the business model of journalism, leading to shrinking coverage…

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The problem(s) with breaking news and how to overcome them – Editors Lab Impact –

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For readers, breaking news can be problematic: sometimes there is a lack of context to the story, and sometimes it is hard to distinguish facts from rumors and misinformation. Push notifications can…

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How journalists are using Spotify to circumvent press censorship

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Reporters Without Borders German harness the power of music to tell stories in censored regimes with ‘The Uncensored Playlist’.

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How 45 journalists started again, and built a profitable news business from scratch | Media news

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Tomas Bella, head of online, Dennik N, explains how the Slovakian publisher created quality journalism that is sustainable and profitable in the longterm

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How to Build a Digital Newsroom with Developers and Journalists Working Together

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Most news organizations today have been publishing online for the better part of a decade. Yet the systems and tools being used in the newsroom are often relics of an earlier era.

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Okay, if Facebook and Google aren’t publishers: How about editors? » Nieman Journalism Lab

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Plus: Facebook found (and shut down) a Macedonian disinformation effort in the Alabama special election, and Facebook groups could get garbage-y fast.

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How to Build a Digital Newsroom with Developers and Journalists Working Together

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Most news organizations today have been publishing online for the better part of a decade. Yet the systems and tools being used in the newsroom are often relics of an earlier era.

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Three examples of machine learning in the newsroom 

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In 1959, Arthur Samuel, a pioneer in machine learning, defined it as the ‘field of study that gives computers the ability to learn without being explicitly programmed’. Machine learning can translate…