Wikinews:Reporters' Workshop/London August 2012/Presentation notes

Planning to trial prezi.com – if can build most of the presentation within it.


 * 1) Introduction to Wikinews
 * When founded, the 'grand idea'
 * Project mission, early days, rise of original reporting
 * 1) Using a wiki for news
 * MediaWiki sub-optimal for news, standardisation of article format, avoiding inline citations
 * 1) Social media integration
 * Share the stories, copying from the BBC, 'push'
 * 1) How Flagged Revisions got us into Google News
 * "Why aren't my articles available via Google news?", previously lost listing, anyone can publish?, publication policy and independence
 * 1) Article style
 * insert-witty-quote-here
 * 1) The inverse-pyramid and active voice
 * Don't bury the important bits, what do people best-remember? Origin of the style/terminology
 * 1) "Facts don't cease to be facts, ..."
 * News is new, people don't buy stale bread
 * 1) Content guide
 * "Learn the rules before you break them"
 * 1) How fair use/fair dealing differs from Wikipedia
 * never from competing agencies, not constrained to "wait until someone is dead" to claim FU
 * credit, always credit
 * 1) Video and audio
 * Conversion a pain (but we're working on that)
 * 1) Original reporting
 * "digging up the dirt"
 * 1) The policy in a nutshell
 * 2) On-the-ground
 * photographs (and the photo-essay), talking to J. Random Public, dealing with those in authority (eg emergency services), getting your name and face known
 * 1) Interviews
 * Email (brief, in-depth, drawbacks), in-person, phone/skype, IRC, preparing questions (and discarding sensibly)
 * Email (brief, in-depth, drawbacks), in-person, phone/skype, IRC, preparing questions (and discarding sensibly)