Sarah Marshall

I teach on the Interactive Journalism MA at City University. This year I’m blogging my class notes. In lesson 4 we looked at Tweetdeck, going from the basics to advanced newsgathering in the sp...

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Image by Cristophe Benoit . Creative Commons In the third class with my Interactive Journalism MA students we looked at analytics and creating an audience strategy. In lesson 1 we looked at t...

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Every student journalist must get to grips with Twitter. You’ll need to understand how to use it for newsgathering, plus you need to cultivate your own audience and personal profile as you laun...

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Not the modern journalism course timetable. Private Eye. I’m about to meet my fourth cohort of  Interactive Journalism MA students at City University, London. I step out of my role as head ...

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I’m at the Global Editors Network Summit in Lisbon. Here are my notes from a Facebook-led workshop. It was by far the most practical Facebook workshop I’ve attended. There are some really go...

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Photo by Rolf Brecher on Flickr. Creative Commons I’ve created a Twitter starter list for my student journalists at City University, London in an effort to help them find interesting digital...

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Photo by Master OSM 2011 on Flickr. Creative commons. I’ve just started a new term as a visiting lecturer at City University, London. I’m encouraging this year’s cohort (studying the MA ...

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Facebook icon by Jurgen Appelo on Flickr. Creative commons One of the sessions at Friday’s Online News Association (ONA) conference on audience engagement was on FACEBOOK VIDEO. Here are ...

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Levers. Image by Paul Hudson on Flickr . Creative commons. The Online News Association (ONA) returned to London for its second international conference on Friday, which was themed around AUDIEN...

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Analysts from two popular data platforms have published whitepapers, both of which include some great tips on making the most of data in the newsroom. Parse.ly’s whitepaper   Chartbeat’s wh...

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Image by Jurgen Appelo of Flickr . Creative commons licence. I started teaching on the MA in interactive journalism at City University a couple of weeks ago, spending two hours a week as a vi...

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Image by J.K. Califf on Flickr . Creative commons licence. News organisations are creating Facebook photo albums to tell stories and encourage shares, which are a key metric for many social med...

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Image by Alvaro Ibanez on Flickr . Creative commons. I went to half a day of the Messaging Apps Event this week, the first London conference focusing solely on chat apps. I only attended a qu...

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On Friday we launched 10 magazines on Flipboard, the idea being to showcase evergreen articles from The Wall Street Journal’s archives. One magazine is a collection of analysis on the Greek d...

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Here’s a guide to creating a Google spreadsheet that auto updates with the number of social media followers. For example, I have a spreadsheet that (at the time of writing) tells me The Wall ...

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Ever struggled to find a concise way to tweet or share a story on Facebook? Here’s a tip: use the power of the audience. Search for the URL in Twitter and see how other people have shared the...

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Today I learned of an iOS app called OneShot that lets you highlight a key phrase in a news article and then share as a photo attachment on Twitter. Here’s how I found out about it. 1. I t...

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Last week I shared some social media tips with a cohort of journalists who were training at UCLan. Here’s a slightly amended version with tips ranging from the obvious to the lesser known. I h...

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While searching for social media photos shared from Baltimore today (using Gramfeed ), I was trying to work out the exact time pictures were uploaded to Instagram.  I realised the time a photo ...

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ONA, Poynter Announce First Class of 25 for Women’s Leadership Academy - Online News Association : This is what I’m going to be doing next week. These are the people I’m going to be spen...

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