Mapping Media Freedom correspondent Ilcho Cvetanoski reports on journalist safety in the Balkans
By Ilcho Cvetanoski / 18 September 2015
From Index on Censorship
Sunday, 20 September 2015
Facebook woos journalists with Signal, a dashboard to gather news across Facebook and Instagram
http://www.niemanlab.org/2015/09/facebook-woos-journalists-with-signal-a-dashboard-to-gather-news-across-facebook-and-instagram/
From Nieman Lab
Facebook isn’t finished with its attempts to move journalists away from their reliance on Twitter. On Thursday, the company launched Signal, a free discovery and curation platform that helps journalists see what’s trending in photos, videos, and (public) posts across Facebook and Instagram.
If Mentions is for outward-facing content and self-promotion, Signal — which is desktop-only for now — is designed to make the backend of the news-gathering process easier.
In a blog post, Andy Mitchell, Facebook’s director of media partnerships,laid out what Signal can do:
Discover what’s trending now on Facebook.Journalists interested in seeing what conversations are resonating on Facebook can monitor which topics are trending and then quickly display related content that has been shared publicly — unranked and in chronological order — from both people and Pages for deeper context on those trends. Search functionality makes it easy to surface content directly related to a story or topic they are tracking.See data on who is driving the most conversation on Facebook.Journalists can access lists of public figures ranked by who is being mentioned the most on Facebook, including real-time conversations across Politicians, Authors, Actors, Musicians, Sports Teams, Players, and more.Search Instagram for visual content surrounding news events around the world.Using location-tag and topic-related search functionality, journalists can search Instagram for public posts related to specific hashtags, associated with specific public accounts, or tagged with locations using an interactive global map.Curate Facebook and Instagram content for newsgathering and packaging.Every Facebook post, every Instagram image or video, and every metric found in Signal can be easily saved into custom collections for later use in a downstream CMS for digital writers or for integration with broadcast graphics packages for broadcast teams.Easily embed content and data from Facebook and Instagram in online and offline coverage.Journalists can easily embed any Facebook and Instagram post in their coverage by simply selecting and copying the post’s embed code. Newsrooms can integrate Signal APIs to feed curated content onto their websites and into their broadcasts, as well as produce native visualizations of curated Instagram content for events.
In some ways, Signal and Twitter’s upcoming Project Lightning, which will show curated tweets around live events and is supposed to launch later this year, are inspired by similar impulses: They want to open the platforms up to those who’ve found them slightly impenetrable. But if the point of Project Lightning is to make it easier for people who aren’t on Twitter, and who haven’t spent years curating their own lists of accounts to follow, to find good content there, the point of Signal is to help narrow down Facebook’s vastness into a more usable form for journalists.
Facebook is limiting Signal access to “professional journalists,” which Mitchell defined as “a broad range from bloggers to traditional news organizations.” You can request access here.
Introducing Signal for Facebook and Instagram
http://media.fb.com/2015/09/17/introducing-signal/
By Andy Mitchell, Director of Media Partnerships
We’ve heard from journalists that they want an easy way to make Facebook a more vital part of their newsgathering with the ability to surface relevant trends, photos, videos, and posts on Facebook and Instagram for use in their storytelling and reporting.
Today we’re excited to introduce Signal, for Facebook and Instagram, a free discovery and curation tool for journalists who want to source, gather, and embed newsworthy content from Facebook and Instagram, across news, culture, entertainment, sports, and more—all in one place.
This step continues our collaboration with the journalism community just after last week’s launch of Mentions for Profiles.
Discover what’s trending now on Facebook
Journalists interested in seeing what conversations are resonating on Facebook can monitor which topics are trending and then quickly display related content that has been shared publicly—unranked and in chronological order— from both people and Pages for deeper context on those trends. Search functionality makes it easy to surface content directly related to a story or topic they are tracking.
Journalists interested in seeing what conversations are resonating on Facebook can monitor which topics are trending and then quickly display related content that has been shared publicly—unranked and in chronological order— from both people and Pages for deeper context on those trends. Search functionality makes it easy to surface content directly related to a story or topic they are tracking.
See data on who is driving the most conversation on Facebook
Journalists can access lists of public figures ranked by who is being mentioned the most on Facebook, including real-time conversations across Politicians, Authors, Actors, Musicians, Sports Teams, Players, and more.
Journalists can access lists of public figures ranked by who is being mentioned the most on Facebook, including real-time conversations across Politicians, Authors, Actors, Musicians, Sports Teams, Players, and more.
Search Instagram for visual content surrounding news events around the world
Using location-tag and topic-related search functionality, journalists can search Instagram for public posts related to specific hashtags, associated with specific public accounts, or tagged with locations using an interactive global map.
Using location-tag and topic-related search functionality, journalists can search Instagram for public posts related to specific hashtags, associated with specific public accounts, or tagged with locations using an interactive global map.
Curate Facebook and Instagram content for newsgathering and packagingEvery Facebook post, every Instagram image or video, and every metric found in Signal can be easily saved into custom collections for later use in a downstream CMS for digital writers or for integration with broadcast graphics packages for broadcast teams.
Easily embed content and data from Facebook and Instagram in online and offline coverage
Journalists can easily embed any Facebook and Instagram post in their coverage by simply selecting and copying the post’s embed code. Newsrooms can integrate Signal APIs to feed curated content onto their websites and into their broadcasts, as well as produce native visualizations of curated Instagram content for events.
Journalists can easily embed any Facebook and Instagram post in their coverage by simply selecting and copying the post’s embed code. Newsrooms can integrate Signal APIs to feed curated content onto their websites and into their broadcasts, as well as produce native visualizations of curated Instagram content for events.
Signal is now available at no cost to journalists and leverages our own Media Solutions APIs, as well as third-party APIs including CrowdTangle and Storyful who each power feeds within the product. This is a first step in helping journalists use Facebook and Instagram more effectively and we’ll gather feedback and iterate to make Signal as useful as possible for industry professionals. For further information about Signal, visit www.facebook.com/facebookmedia/get-started/signal.
Facebook announces Signal – content curation tool for Journalists
In a bid to get the same attention journalists give to Twitter when it comes to real-time breaking news and major events; Facebook has announced Signal.
The social media giant describes it a free discovery and curation tool for journalists who want to source, gather, and embed newsworthy content from Facebook and Instagram, across news, culture, entertainment, sports, and more—all in one place.
Signal is backed by technology from Facebook’s Media Solutions application programming interfaces (APIs) as well as using those of CrowdTangle and Storyful. It shows what is trending on the social network and journalists would be able to search through public posts.
The tool also applies to Instagram, relevant news photos and videos from public accounts across the world. The tool is primarily one for journalists and media professionals alike to source data, text, photos and videos across various categories from Facebook & Instagram.
These curated contents can then be embedded online and integrated into broadcasts. Signal is available for free and is currently only available to journalists in the US working in English-language newsrooms. Users must however, have their employer’s name (media company they are representing) in their bio before requesting access to the service.
Objectivity: when ministers, journalists and a norm collide
https://theconversation.com/objectivity-when-ministers-journalists-and-a-norm-collide-47414
Author
- Associate Professor in Media and Communication, University of Western Australia
Academic and journalists alike are fond of declaring that objectivity in journalism is outright impossible. The fallback is to say that even though the ideal of objectivity might be unattainable, it remains important to strive for.
Fairfax columnist and former Media Watch host Jonathan Holmes and the ABC’s director of editorial policy, Alan Sunderland, have debated the issue recently in Fairfax newspapers. Holmes’ column was prompted by Immigration Minister Peter Dutton’s comment that reporters:
… aren’t supposed to be political players, they’re supposed to be objective reporters of the news.
As the author of a book on objectivity in journalism and an avid participant in journalistic forums, I have noticed that journalists commonly make three errors when it comes to speaking about objectivity.
Apple just did something that has journalists scared for the future.
Here’s what you need to know. The tech giant rolled out a new version of its mobile operating system with a very controversial new feature
as-blocking
http://www.salon.com/2015/09/18/apple_just_did_something_that_has_journalists_scared_for_the_future_heres_what_you_need_to_know/
as-blocking
http://www.salon.com/2015/09/18/apple_just_did_something_that_has_journalists_scared_for_the_future_heres_what_you_need_to_know/
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