Sourcing and handling user-generated content - workshop with @lauraoliver 17 Feb
One-day course: Learn how to work with eyewitness media quickly and reliably
Tutor(s): Laura Oliver
Starts: 10:00 17 February 2017
Finishes: 17:00 17 February 2017
Location: The Bridge, 81 Southwark Bridge Road, London SE1 0NQ
Price: ￡275 (inc. VAT)
News outlets are not the only ones producing stories and sharing information online. Many people are now directly uploading films, images, articles and news leads to social platforms.
Working with these platforms and creators can be of great benefit to your work as a journalist, providing ideas and inspiration, as well as a diverse range of voices and stories to highlight through your work.
But with billions of Facebook users, YouTube uploads, Instagrammers and tweets, how can you find the stories and information that matter to you?
And once you've found it, how can you verify what's in front of you?
This course, taught by Laura Oliver, former head of social and community at the Guardian, will cover sourcing eyewitness media and user-generated content in a responsible way and in a way that makes the most of your time.
This course is suitable for journalists looking to source stories from social platforms or communications professionals who need to filter and verify potentially newsworthy material uploaded online. Anyone with a strong interested in digital media and news will enjoy this course.
Delegates will need to bring a laptop, and have access to Twitter, Facebook, Instagram and YouTube.
What will the course cover?
- How to set up searches and alerts for user-generated content (UGC);
- Verification tools and techniques;
- Legal issues surrounding eyewitness media and UGC;
- Ethical issues surrounding eyewitness media and UGC;
Developing organisation policy for handling UGC.
Getting there
This course takes place at The Bridge, 81 Southwark Bridge Road, London SE1 0NQ – a ten-minute walk from London Bridge tube and train station.
About Laura Oliver
Laura is a freelance journalist, digital consultant and trainer focused on social media and working with online audiences.
She was head of social and community at the Guardian and part of this team for nearly six years, working to build online communities, manage the Guardian's social media approach and tell stories with different audiences online. She managed, edited and commissioned a team of journalists within the newsroom. Prior to joining the Guardian she was editor of Journalism.co.uk.
She has delivered training in community management, social media, handling user-generated content to journalists in the UK, Brazil, Latvia and Norway, and is available for chats about all of these things and more on Twitter @lauraoliver.