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Which #journalism hashtags on Twitter do you find most useful?
According to www.hashtags.org, the hashtag #journalism showed up on Twitter nearly 100 times in just an hour today. Other journalism hashtags we are learning from daily include #news, #journo, #hyperlocal and #journchat. What are some hashtags you think are useful when researching trends or journalism innovation on Twitter?
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Nicole Staudinger says:
January 9, 2013 at 1:14 pm
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jessica durkin says:
March 5, 2012 at 11:13 pm
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Nicole Staudinger says:
March 6, 2012 at 2:23 pm
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Nicole Staudinger says:
February 21, 2012 at 11:11 am
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November 2, 2011 at 12:05 pm
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August 24, 2011 at 2:45 pm
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Andre Natta says:
August 24, 2011 at 7:17 am
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August 3, 2011 at 4:44 pm
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July 27, 2011 at 6:15 am
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July 26, 2011 at 8:42 pm
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July 26, 2011 at 11:06 pm
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Kathleen Majorsky (@mediamaj) says:
July 24, 2011 at 12:12 pm
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July 21, 2011 at 7:25 am
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Lisa Skube says:
July 21, 2011 at 10:28 am
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July 21, 2011 at 2:02 pm
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July 20, 2011 at 11:01 am
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July 13, 2011 at 3:43 pm
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July 13, 2011 at 10:14 am
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July 13, 2011 at 9:34 am
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David Herzog says:
July 12, 2011 at 4:48 pm
| ParticipantsIn my quest to keep on the edge of breaking news and new developments in the ever-changing media ecosystem, journalism-oriented hashtags and Twitter chats have been invaluable over the last year. Here’s a list of my most fruitful follows for 2012:
1. #ddj (digital journalism news/tools)
2. #pubmedia (public media news)
3. #freepress (media freedom news)
4. #muckedup (practical chat for journalists)
5. #opengov (transparency policy news)
6. #jprenuer (business journalism tips/trainings)
7. #FOIAchat (Freedom of Information Act chat for journalists)
8. #mediadiversity (minority journalism news/job ops)
What do you follow to stay informed? Post up your top 5 most informative hashtags here for the community to share!
I was wondering about common hashtags for journalism business and economics. I just posted that a local newspaper in my area was bought by a private equity firm, but I wasn’t sure what hashtag to use (or create). #journbiz? #newsbiz?
In light of JA’s latest forum about sustainable journalism (http://journalismaccelerator.com/topics/blog/), I discovered these two hashtags that reflect the economic side of the journo world:
#jbiz
#BizJ
#jpreneur, originally developed by the Entrepreneurial Journalism Institute at ASU, is also gaining momentum as a valuable tag to follow for journalism business related news. .
Hope this helps, Jessica!
In the mere three months since sharing my last windfall, a brand new crop of journalism-related hashtags has blossomed. This really speaks to the evolution of journalists’ involvement in the Twittersphere and the growing opportunity to harvest valuable information when working collaboratively.
My latest hashtag threads to track include:
#medialiteracy
#mediajustice
#pubmedia
#digitaljournalism
#digitalnews
#digitalmedia
#digitalfirst
#jbiz
#jpreneur
With all these terms to track, I recommend setting up a Twitter management dashboard such as Hootsuite or Tweetdeck where you can create columns with multiple groupings of searches for easier perusal. For more journalism-specific Twitter tips, please refer to our January blog post: http://journalismaccelerator.com/blog/new-ja-feature-tweets-for-keeps/
Hope this is helpful to all! Please feel free to leverage this comment thread for any questions as to JA’s Twitter usage or the wide world of Twitter in general.
I’ve been deeply immersed in the Twitterverse lately, and thought I would share some of the journalism related hashtags I have come across in my exploration. They are particularly helpful because of their specificity, and continuously assist me in identifying great resources/people to follow.
#netfreedom, #freepress, #pressfreedom
#opendata, #publicdomain
#newmedia, #datajournalism, #mobilenews
#newsrooms, #publishing
#wclw (chat for freelancers)
#commschat (communications-based chat)
I know the #FOIAchat has been mentioned before, but I would like to reiterate how effective participating in the chat can be for people/organizations seeking to gain deeper knowledge and resources surrounding transparency issues.
Hope this is helpful; if anyone else has any new # discoveries, please share!
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I’ve started to primarily follow #wjchat. It seems to be focused on topics related to online-based innovation. It also isn’t as tied to PR questions as some of the others have been. I also keep track of #jcarn whenever possible.
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MT @futuresoup: yo @phillipadsmith r #journalism hashtags for #MozNewsLab compiled using @journaccel http://ow.ly/5OrUf
Here are some tweetup hashtags that I’ve found worth checking out (times subject to change)
#wjchat – weekly journalism chat – currently Wednesdays 8p ET – moderated by @wjchat
#journchat – weekly journalism chat – currently mondays 8p ET – moderated by @journchat
#mybxb – weekly (?) journalism chat for independent hyperlocals – currently mondays @ 8pm ET – moderated by @mybxb
#Jcarn – The Carnival of Journalism, a monthly journalism chat started by David Cohn, organized via google groups – https://groups.google.com/group/carnival-of-journalism
#pubmedia – was a weekly chat on public media hosted by @pubmedia, the organizers recently announced having to break from hosting weekly twitter chats, but #pubmedia hashtag is still being used as well as #pubjobs for jobs in public media.
Also…
#MozNewsLab – is currently being used by the 63 hacker/journalists participating in the Knight-Mozilla Learning Lab, which started July 11th and ends Aug. 8th
more info at: http://p2pu.org/en/groups/knight-mozilla-learning-lab/
[any that I’m missing? please reply! ]
Then you’ve got your general #journalism hashtags, but I’ve found that because of grammar usage, people include variations in their tweets to match the noun conjugation, so you’ll find results if you search for all of these
#journalism , #journalist , #journalists, #journo , #journos
If I had an extra second, I’d make a Yahoo pipe RSS to combine these into one feed.
I find hashtags most useful when they are tied to specific events, a few I keep my eyes on
#NewsNext – hashtag used for ONA / SPJ partnered events here in Seattle (examples here: http://journalismthatmatters.org/seattlejournalismcommons/tag/society-of-professional-journalists/ )
#MCDM – not an event but is for the Masters of Communication in Digital Media at University of Washington in Seattle, many students / faculty / alum use and a good place to pretend you’re getting a graduate education on the cheap 🙂
#Techforgood – was following this when popular non-profit social media guru @Kanter came into town, still has some good activity
Lastly, a few hashtags which have promising potential and are good phrases, but are sadly infiltrated with habitual stink.
#breaking – can be kind of useful if you filter the search on http://search.twitter.com to “top tweets” instead of “everything”
#socialmedia – a vast hallway of self promotion and marketing fluff in my opinion
#HARO – seems to be infiltrated by Engrish (“Haro” being a butchered Japanese pronunciation of “hello!”) — better off just following @helpareporter if you want to help a reporter using their platform.
Anybody use http://tweetgrid who wants to share?
How about other Hashtag compilers?
I checked out http://hashtags.org and was interested in these:
Environment / Justice: #humanrights, #poverty, #hunger, #aid, #sustainability, #health, #green, #eco, #earthtweet, #humantrafficking, #climate, #solar, #fairtrade
Social Change: #socialgood, #cause, #volunteer, #4change, #giveback, #dogood, #crisiscommons
also if anyone wants to start a punk band with me called “habitual stink” where we sing angsty songs about #hashtag pollution – follow and dm me on twitter @futuresoup :<)
Good question: Which #journalism hashtags on Twitter do you find most useful?: http://t.co/2UWgYCa via @journaccel
Lisa wrote via email:
> we’re curious where’s the locally flavored hashtag water coolers?
Lisa,
When I tweet for my local community, I don’t use any journalism-related hashtags. They’re not really interested in journalism. They’re interested in the community. So I mostly just use the hashtag for the name of our town #Northfield if I have room, as does the local Patch editor.
Or maybe I misunderstood your question… what you wrote via email seems different than the question you posed here.
Thanks for joining the conversation and weighing in Griff. The short answer, we’re interested in both flavors. And you’re right, as I reached out to you, noting http://locallygrownnorthfield.org/ deep roots in the community, learning more about the virtual gathering places for your community is what we hoped to learn more about. A CA hyperlocal site publisher that contributed to the story (http://journalismaccelerator.com/topics/blog/) you participated in, shot me an email and shared his focus is on his community and producing content to serve their needs. He’d noted tweet ups and the like just weren’t his thing. We hear a number of local site operators share this sentiment, prioritizing the day with a focus on community needs means strategic use of twitter and other social media. Maybe we should be asking “how are local site publishers getting the most out of social media in service TO their communities?”
> Maybe we should be asking “how are local site publishers getting the most out of social media in service TO their communities?”
Yeah, that’s a better question, Lisa. 😉
Blogging on Locally Grown Northfield and facilitating the conversation in the comment threads attached to the posts are my first priority so I don’t take time away from that to engage significantly in conversations/socializing/relationship building in my Locally Grown ‘outposts’ on Facebook, Twitter, and now on Google+.
I’m bigger on using those networks for A) listening/learning; and B) linking to my blog posts, drawing people from them to the blog. For a geographic community, it’s important to me to continually build our archive of both content and conversation that easily be referred/linked to in the years to come. (The archive is now up to 3,300 blog posts and 43,000 comments since 2006.) That’s a rich trove that I continually tap into for our community affairs/issues discussions. If that content and those conversations had taken place instead in Facebook, it wouldn’t be nearly as accessible.
So I’ll continue to experiment with the social networks — doing a Locally Grown Google Huddle is on my to-do list in the next week — but I don’t see that we’ll ever do anything that would detract from the vitality of our blogsite as our anchor.
RT @TheLensNOLA: #NOLA tweeters: go right here http://bit.ly/qaxp2s & submit NOLA journo hashtags that you use or find useful @journaccel.
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I’ve mostly used the top few mentioned, #journalism, #journo, etc. But one I see every week is #wjchat, a weekly Twitter-chat for web journos to share their thoughts, experiences and tips. Although I haven’t joined the conversation, I’ve read the chats some of the people I follow are in on. Good stuff.
#journchat is about the only one I use… and you already have it. I’m guessing some people would use #HARO (help a reporter out). It probably has a lot to do with your beat, like in David’s answer.
Most of my work is in the investigative and computer-assisted reporting realm, so I frequently use hashtags having to do with access to information:
#FOIA for tweets about the U.S. Freedom of Information Act and using it to get documents and data from federal agencies.
#opengov for generic discussions about open government.
#openmo for tweets about access to records and data in Missouri.
#gov20 and/or #gov2 for commenting about government efforts to make more data available
#ire_nicar for references to Investigative Reporters and Editors/National Institute for Computer-Assisted Reporting for which I work).
#datajournalism or #data #journalism to talk broadly about using data for news stories, graphics or web apps.