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Our country is in mourning. People are outraged. And we as journalists are doing our best to cover what is a complex and quickly evolving…

One of the tips: Be human, and ask for help

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Free Google tools training

Time to learn new tools from Google! SPJ is sending us a trainer for an in-depth training session in Google Tools via the Newslab. We've had these trainings in the past, but it's been four years since the last one and things have advanced significantly!

Our SPJ trainer is Mike Reilley, a lecturer at the University of Illinois-Chicago in digital and data journalism as well as founder of the Red Line Project and co-founder of MediaShift Training Network and Penny Press Digital Consulting. Mike will introduce us to some new Google Earth and verification tools with search shortcuts, as well as data scraping tools, visualizations with Google Flourish, Google Dataset Search, Public Data Explorer and new techniques with MyMaps. These tools can help supplement and support your data collection and help you find new ways to draw audience.

SPJ and the Google News Initiative teamed up in 2015 to provide free training to journalists around the U.S. looking to apply these tools in their news gathering, reporting and storytelling. The programs are provided by talented, personable, knowledgeable SPJ members who have been trained by the Google News Initiative. They are journalists, not Google employees.

Funding for this program is provided through the national Society of Professional Journalists and Google News Initiative. Many thanks go to our friends at St. Louis Public Radio for agreeing to host us for this seminar.

This training is FREE to St. Louis journalists, whether or not you are a member of SPJ! (Though we are always glad to help you join; click here for more information or email St. Louis Pro President Elizabeth Donald.)

Please RSVP at EventBrite! Clicking "interested" on the Facebook event does not reserve you a spot.

Hope to see you in February!

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Does you bio on Twitter include what you do, how readers can contact you? What about your public-facing Facebook profile/page?

#social media #trust

Any journalist can be a target, no matter their role. It's time to take more steps toward security.

Remember: just by committing any act of journalism, you are worthy of a data breach. You may be thinking, “well I only have a small Twitter following, no one is going to notice and target me,” but in the current climate, any story has the potential to go viral and bring unexpected attention to the news organization that published it, as well as the individual journalist behind the byline.

#newsroom training #social media #doxxing

Thu, Oct 17, 2019, 5:30 PM: What We'll DoCovering traumatic material, as well as supporting colleagues and community, is an undeniable part of journalism. But it's often not discussed openly. Join ONA

You do not need to be an ONA member to attend the meeting.

#onastl #newsroom training #mental health

This week Twitter got angry. Again. It was angry because BBC political editor Laura Kuenssberg identified the father of a sick baby who confronted the prime minister as a political activist, embedd…

Not saying that quote tweeting is bad, but the context of your tweet can be important.

“Kuenssberg and other political reporters may not be aware of doxxing culture — but they should be, and the debates surrounding it, because their own reporting is part of the political communication landscape across which it increasingly takes place.”

#social media #newsroom training

List of site to help you dig deeper into social media posts and website data. From an #ONA19 session

#newsroom training #ona19

Thu, May 23, 2019, 5:00 PM: What We'll DoJoin ONA St. Louis on Thursday, May 23, at Urban Chestnut Brewing Co. in The Grove as we learn how to do more and better investigative journalism. Investigativ

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Thu, Jan 17, 2019, 5:15 PM: What We'll DoCome join ONA St. Louis on Thursday, Jan. 17, as we host a panel discussion on using SEO and analytics to build your readership and show up in Google.What You

I’ll be presenting!

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St. Louis SPJ will host a Facebook training program through the national Society of Professional Journalists and the Facebook Journalism Project. This program will allow journalists to learn more about ways to use Facebook for engaging the public, creating and sharing works of journalism, using specialty products like Live, Groups, Creators and CrowdTangle; and more. The trainers are all current or former professional journalists, including a Fulbright Scholar, the founder of El Gato Media Network, leaders of audience development, freelancers, consultants and reporters for various newspapers and TV stations, and Lynn Walsh, who is project manager at the Trusting News Project and past national president of the Society of Professional Journalists. Our trainer will be Ben Meyerson, news editor for Blue Sky Innovation, the technology and innovation section at the Chicago Tribune, and a digital editor and columnist for RedEye Chicago. He also is an executive board member of the Chicago Headline Club, the largest chapter of the Society of Professional journalists. In the evolving world of social media and journalism, this is an opportunity to learn more about how to manage our social media presence and better serve our readers, wherever they may find us. Please RSVP here! This FREE training opportunity is aimed at working journalists and educators looking to update their skills, but you do NOT have to be a member of SPJ to participate. (But we certainly won't mind if you join!) Thank you to St. Louis Public Radio for hosting our training session, and to our partner organizations for helping us to share the word! About the Society of Professional Journalists: SPJ promotes the free flow of information vital to informing citizens; works to inspire and educate the next generation of journalists, and fights to protect First Amendment guarantees of freedom of speech and press. Support excellent journalism and fight for your right to know. Become a member, give to the Legal Defense Fund, or give to the Sigma Delta Chi Foundation. About the Facebook Journalism Project: The Facebook Journalism Project was created in January 2017 to ensure that quality news thrives on Facebook. FJP focuses on three pillars: collaborative development of new products; tools and trainings for newsrooms; and tools and trainings for people. Questions? Contact St. Louis SPJ President Elizabeth Donald at [email protected]. See you in January!

#newsroom training #facebook

A free HTML5 app to take the pain out of transcribing interviews. Useful for journalists, academics and anyone else transcribing audio. And it's open source, too.

Did I mention it’s free?

#newsroom tools

We have had employees' accounts hacked. Check your Facebook account as well.

#social media #newsroom training

Novelist and editor Stephanie Feldman was at work when she first learned that her identity had been stolen. Except in her case, it wasn’t a Social Security number or banking information the culprit was after—it was her livelihood. With nothing but a Twitter login and a headshot swiped from Stephanie’s professional website, an anonymous figure […]

#newsroom safety #newsroom #social media #harassment

There's huge value in interacting with your community, both for your reporting and your company. Here's how to do it effectively.

There are at least four good reasons for a journalist to engage in the comments on their articles.

To improve the quality of the comments

To create a loyal audience for your work

To increase people’s trust in your work

To find new story ideas, sources, connections

#newsroom #reader engagement #newspaper comments #read the comments #comments #readers

Blame Google, for a start.

Why has the online face many newspapers show the world grown uglier even as the need for advertising dollars from the web has grown more urgent?

#newsroom #advertising #websites

Matt Carlson, an associate professor of communication at Saint Louis University, was set to announce a collaborative research project that would “connect a lot of dots surrounding news metrics and digital distribution platforms.” He wanted to examine journalism’s embrace of real-time audience data by shining a spotlight on “all the different actors involved, from reporters …

“The analytic tools are constrained by what they can measure and rely on likes, shares, number of comments and other audience metrics to define engagement. In this sense, it is user activity and behavior that becomes a proxy for the voice of the audience. This is a limited understanding of the audience, let alone having a dialog with the audience.”

#measurable journalism #newsroom #analytics #newsroom training

Journalists overestimate how much Americans know and care about journalism. The general public doesn’t care as much about press freedom and the First Amendment as we hope. They don’t know as much about the basic principles of journalism as we assume. And they sure as hell don’t trust journalism as much as we would like. […]

Tip No. 4: Don’t assume people understand the process of journalism.

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