Project: Using mobile technology for newsgathering
On this page:
About the project:
As the manager of a fast-paced high-energy newsroom, I have come to use mobile and social technology more and more over the last two years. My reporters both maintain and monitor news and twitter feeds, and we often pursue news tips that come out of these social networking platforms. But our use of these techniques has been ad hoc and sporadic, and without a methodology or system in place to track potential leads, many good leads get lost – and bad leads get followed.
This year at Stanford, I am exploring ways to standardize the use of social networking, mobile and tagging sites for newsgathering, to create a usable tool for news verification that can be used not only in my radio station, but in other newsrooms around the world.
Latest updates from the Farm:
Knight News Challenge application for the implementation of a news submission/verification/delivery system using the tool I'm developing in the real-world setting of the Palestinian Territories.
Liquid news app - prototype being developed for CS147 Human-Computer Interaction class (link works best on iphone) - November 2011
My first Iphone app - thanks to Prof. Scott Klemmer CS147 Human-Computer Interaction
"Influence Without Authority: -- article in Stanford's Social Innovation Review - November 2011