5.2 Social media and interview with 'Deep Throat'

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Journalism Skills for Engaged Citizens

10 classificações

The University of Melbourne

Journalism Skills for Engaged Citizens

10 classificações

This is a course in basic journalism skills, designed for the many people who are now taking advantage of new media to publish news, views and information. For five hundred years, the privilege of being able to publish was enjoyed by very few people – those who had access to a printing press or a radio microphone or a television camera. Now, almost anyone can publish to the world within minutes of being able to do so. But is it journalism? How does a citizen journalist find things out, so they can report facts and news - moving beyond merely braying opinion? And what are the legal and ethical pitfalls to publishing facts that some people might prefer remain secret? Over six weeks, this course teaches the basics of news writing, how to interview people to gain crucial information, how to develop and manage your sources and how to use your legal rights to access public information - and stay on the right side of the law when you publish. We discuss the ethics behind journalism practice, and conduct a mock investigation into local government. This course aims to empower engaged citizens to better participate in the news ecology. View the MOOC promotional video here: http://tinyurl.com/jj46rxw

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Contacts and Confidential Sources; Applying the Skills and Organising Your Material

This week we explore the complications of dealing with off the record sources and long term contacts. We watch an encounter with a Newstown 'Deep Throat' and discuss how to handle the encounter and the information offered. Remember to check out the Newstown website for more information becoming available. We begin to pull all the threads of the Newstown story together, and apply the skills we have learned in the earlier modules of this course. We talk about how to read and analyse the public documents on the Newstown site, how to organise material, what questions to ask based on this material, and how to pull it all together into a story for The Alternative. We also provide you with an exemplar news report to give you some guidance for the final news writing assessment and how it might be done.

5.1 Sources and confidentiality18:25

5.2 Social media and interview with 'Deep Throat'4:35

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Dr. Denis Muller
Senior Lecturer and Senior Research Fellow
Centre for Advancing Journalism
Dr. Margaret Simons
Associate Professor and Director
Centre for Advancing Journalism

Dealing with people on the phone or face-to-face is complicated enough.

But there are also some new sources of information that you might like

to consider.

We've talked in earlier weeks about the vast amount of data that's now available

on the web and how some journalists are using this to make interactive graphics,

new ways of making information available for the public.

Meanwhile, other journalists are using social media to develop

a different kind of relationship to their sources.

Take a look at this video presentation by Andy Carvin, a National Public Radio

journalist in the USA, who's a pioneer in using Twitter for real time journalism.

Using the crowd to provide and

verify information in a combination of a newsfeed and a virtual newsroom.

Take a minute to look at it now.

You can read more about Andy Carvin and his work here.

Carvin now works at First Look Media but still uses social media in creative ways.

Check out his Twitter feed to see what he's talking about right now.

You can also read his book, Distant Witness,

to find out more about what he did and how he did it.

Not everyone can spare the time and the energy to live tweet revolutions.

But increasingly, journalists are watching social media closely.

And sometimes using it to reach out to potential sources or ask people who are in

a position to know, to provide information or verify allegations.

After all, the audience always knows more if you group them all together,

than any journalist can possibly know.

Social media offers the chance that we can actually access that knowledge and

organize it.

You can consider how you might use these new tools in your practice or perhaps you

already have, in which case, we'd love to hear about it in the discussion forum.

Now we'd like you to listen to the following conversation between

a journalist on the News 10 Alternative and the source.

>> Hello.

>> I'm Margaret Simons from The Alternative.

So why did you want to meet?

>> Do you have your phone on you?

You need to switch it off.

>> Okay.

>> This conversation never happened.

It's not worth my job.

>> So, who are you?

>> Do you agree to the terms I just said?

>> Well, I need some idea of why we're here before I can give that

sort of undertaking.

>> Okay, can I trust you?

>> I won't tell anyone we've met.

>> I work in the office of the CEO of the council.

My name's Adam Good.

You can check me out, I'm on LinkedIn.

>> Okay, so why are we here?

>> I'm just so disgusted by what they've done.

Before we go on I need to know, this is all off the record.

>> Okay, I agree, this is off the record.

>> So this conversation never happened, we never met?

>> That's right.

>> It's about the announcement.

Basically, you need to know that they've been funding the counselor's

campaign costs for years now, all through other companies.

None of it ever shows up.

Also, I think they might be bribing my boss, the CEO.

Her name is Ramona Jennings.

As for the state government minister, I don't know, but I have my suspicions.

>> How do you know this?

>> It's just what you ever hear in the office.

I once heard Conroy talking about a donation.

>> When was that?

>> Just before the flood was lifted on the land.

This must have been a few years ago.

In the office.

It's different, they pat each other on the back, they're always laughing.

>> What about the CEO?

>> I've seen them talking, you have to follow the money.

I can't get involved but I'll help you where I can.

I like The Alternative, you've shaken up the system.

I can point you in the right direction.

>> Well, we'll need some sort of evidence.

Can you lay your hands on any documents or anything?

>> It's not worth my job.

That's enough, I got to go.

Don't call me, the police can check phone calls because they can track metadata.

>> Questions to discuss in the forum are,

what, if anything, could you report from this conversation?

And what steps would you take as a result of hearing these allegations?

And, explain why you make your decisions and how you made them?

Now, next week we're going to try and

pull all this together into a reporting exercise.

Keep an eye on the News 10 site over the week ahead to see some new information.

See you soon.

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