A Super-Simple Tool to Search Instagram by Time and Location - ProPublica
Instagram doesn’t offer a robust search option but as ProPublica points out, it “has an API with a “Media Search” endpoint that returns data both by timeframe and distance from a certain latitude and longitude — a perfect way to see who’s at a certain place at a certain time.”
Image: Screenshot of a search May 2 of the New Orleans Fair Grounds, where the New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival was happening.
It’s something forward-thinking digital journos have been doing for years — even before the social and mobile fast trains left the station. (IE Blogs are not newspaper stories). Even way before the design realities and technical underpinnings of Responsive or Adaptive Web Design were our…
A thoughtful post by former ONA Board Member Cory Haik, executive producer for digital news at the Washington Post.
AP has released an update to their social media guidelines, with a new update on “on how (and whether) to use social networks to get information and amateur content from people who are in danger, or who have suffered a significant personal loss.” The new advice is derived from “Social Newsgathering in Sensitive Situations,” drafted by Eric Carvin and Fergus Bell.
Your staff needs to understand that getting-it-first and getting-it-right are not conflicting choices but essential dual priorities. If you don’t have it right, you don’t have it first – you don’t have it at all.
Steve Buttry, in his latest advice for new senior editors at Digital First Media.
Read more: Advice for editors: Stand for accuracy and accountability | The Buttry Diary
It is the responsibility of scientists and journalists to work together in stopping such empathy fatigue, because empathy is the primary human quality that fuels our instinct to protect human rights around the world.
Jamil Zaki, Empathy Fatigue and What the Press Can Do About It, The Huffington Post.
Background:
Circa 2009, I geeked out over Zaki’s article because, well, hearing a psychologist weigh in on the objectivity-is-perilous-in-journalism debate is refreshing. No one’s really arguing anymore over the fact that objectivity is a tricky, nuanced, sub-standard ethic for journalism, but a new, better ethic hasn’t quite emerged. A singular sterling standard probably won’t.
Last fall, some of the best and brightest in media sat down to talk about it all and thanks to Poynter, this book emerged. Really smart people all over the world are creating and debating around accurate and value-creative reporting. You can explore our ethics tag for past coverage of some of those conversations.
The News:
Zaki, who is on the science side of things, very much heeded his own call to action and today I’m geeking out over his newest project, The People’s Science, a digital public space where scientists and the public can meet, share, and talk about science.
The site’s purpose is to encourage scientists to write posts about their research in easy-to-understand language and for the public to have conversations with those scientists directly.
In Zaki’s words (via NPR):
In an ideal world, I think TPS could provide a platform for scientists to feature their work to a broad audience and describe why they find it exciting and relevant. For non-scientists, I hope that the site can provide an insider’s perspective on how scientists think, and a way to go beyond the “punchlines” of a given study and understand the process that went into it. I also think the public should be able to use this to vet other media sources, testing claims made by reporters against scientists’ own descriptions. Finally, I’d like the site to be a true forum: instead of each “pop” abstract serving as a static document, I’d like non-scientists and scientists alike to be able to ask questions and engage in discussion about the work posted here. At the highest level, my dream for this site would be to help scientists and non-scientists into more dialogue, which I believe can only be a good thing for our culture at large.
FJP: We agree, obviously, on very many levels. It humanizes the researchers behind academia’s impenetrable walls by thrusting them into the social sphere. It’s a gold mine for science reporters to have easy and direct access to emerging research and scientists. As someone who (in my non FJP life) works for an academic journal and deals quite regularly with the incomprehensible abstract and and insanely long paper title, it’s wonderful.
Now go explore the site and ask questions.—Jihii
(via futurejournalismproject)
The Committee to Protect Journalists has released the 2013 Impunity Index, which shows where journalists have been killed and their murders go unpunished.
The report is a chilling reminder of the attacks that press face around the world and details incidents in Brazil, Pakistan, Somalia and more.
Image: Screenshot of interactive created by the Committee to Protect Journalists
Read more: Getting Away With Murder - Reports - Committee to Protect Journalists
No female reporter before her had ever seemed quite so audacious, so willing to risk personal safety in pursuit of a story.How to pack like Nellie Bly, pioneering Victorian journalist who raced around the world in 80 days.
Here is my updated version:
What to pack to report on a protest - the gear journalists take into the field today: http://storify.com/jcstearns/packing-for-a-protest-the-gear-journalists-take-to
This is not a ritual for me where you just come on camera and say you’re sorry and hope to move on. I’m truly sorry about what happened. I believe deeply in good journalism and fair journalism and I am determined to learn from this episode and minimize the chances of anything like this happening again.
Though plagiarism and fabrication remain a worry for editors, more likely these days is a problem that could arise from the misuse of social media, in which journalists have unfiltered, unedited publication channels. And beyond the actions of individual journalists, The Times faces previously unimagined risks to its credibility as it experiments with new ways to replace advertising revenue, which continues to shrink.
It [was] World Press Freedom Day and while it’s historically been thought of as a day to reflect, celebrate and promote traditional press freedoms, it’s expanded with the understanding that activists, pro-am journalists and ordinary citizens deserve their communication and publishing rights protected as well.
The Electronic Frontier Foundation has a great legal guide (US) for bloggers of all stripes to navigate issues ranging from legal liability issues to reporter’s privilege and issues specific to student bloggers:
Like all journalists and publishers, bloggers sometimes publish information that other people don’t want published. You might, for example, publish something that someone considers defamatory, republish an AP news story that’s under copyright, or write a lengthy piece detailing the alleged crimes of a candidate for public office.
The difference between you and the reporter at your local newspaper is that in many cases, you may not have the benefit of training or resources to help you determine whether what you’re doing is legal. And on top of that, sometimes knowing the law doesn’t help - in many cases it was written for traditional journalists, and the courts haven’t yet decided how it applies to bloggers.
But here’s the important part: None of this should stop you from blogging. Freedom of speech is the foundation of a functioning democracy, and Internet bullies shouldn’t use the law to stifle legitimate free expression. That’s why EFF created this guide, compiling a number of FAQs designed to help you understand your rights and, if necessary, defend your freedom.
Read it. Bookmark it. And blog away.
World Press Freedom Day may have already past but this is worth reblogging any day.
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