{"id":1242,"date":"2016-04-27T13:36:52","date_gmt":"2016-04-27T20:36:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nocontest.ca\/?p=1242"},"modified":"2016-04-27T13:36:52","modified_gmt":"2016-04-27T20:36:52","slug":"first-draft-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nocontest.ca\/index.php\/2016\/04\/27\/first-draft-news\/","title":{"rendered":"First Draft News"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"FirstDraftNews\"<\/a><\/p>\n

FirstDraftNews.com is a beautiful and wide-ranging resource created for journalists “who source and report stories from social media.”<\/p>\n

What is the best way to search for eyewitness media when a story breaks?\u00a0<\/span>What are the most efficient and effective ways to verify what you find?\u00a0How should you approach and credit social sources?\u00a0What role can you play in stopping the spread of rumours and hoaxes?\u00a0How can you do all this while remaining commercially competitive? …<\/span><\/p>\n

Here on First Draft News you will find relevant features, reviews, case studies and analysis<\/a> authored by members of the First Draft Coalition alongside a library of free training resources<\/a> for use in the newsroom and the classroom.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

First Draft is\u00a0also, I have found, a godsend to non-journalists\u00a0who write and teach professionally and who need to navigate and fact-check enormous amounts of information in order to do their jobs at a high level. The site has sections devoted to News Gathering (Mastering Google Search to find eyewitness media<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0How to find geolocated videos on YouTube<\/a>, for example), Verification (How to use TinEye to find the oldest version of an image online<\/a>), and Ethics and Law (What are the legal implications for accidental copyright infringement?<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0A simple guide to the complexities of copyright law<\/a>). The site also focuses on Fakes and Hoaxes (Lessons from The New York Times Super Tuesday hoax: Five ways to spot fake news<\/a> and, my favourite,\u00a0The \u2018giant\u2019 rat found in London is almost definitely not 4 feet long<\/a>).<\/p>\n

University educators can create “packs” useful articles and share them with their students and\/or colleagues. Even better, in my experience students eat up the kind of\u00a0online platforms and tools vetted and annotated here; these lessons and resources will not go unused. And finally, First Draft provides a number of detailed and contemporary case studies<\/a> that make research – and discussion of research methods – vivid and fun.<\/p>\n

A handy-dandy starting spot\u00a0for you:\u00a05 Vital browser plugins<\/a>. They include\u00a0Storyful Multisearch<\/a>\u00a0(gives you customized and filtered searches of numerous databases at once), Google Translate<\/a>\u00a0(provides automatically translated posts originally written in languages you don’t know well),\u00a0RevEye<\/a>\u00a0(performs a reverse image search “to see if the image has appeared elsewhere before”),\u00a0Distill Web Monitor<\/a>\u00a0(“let[s]\u00a0you know about changes to a web page via a pop-up on your computer, email or SMS”), and\u00a0Jeffrey\u2019s Exif Viewer<\/a>\u00a0(checks\u00a0“whether a picture is all it claims to be” – “time, date, device used” – by examining its metadata).<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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