Comments for Groundswell http://stearns.wordpress.com Writings On Media, Culture, Nature, and Community. Wed, 15 May 2013 15:46:16 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ Comment on A Crash Course in Verification and Misinformation in the Wake of the Boston Bombing by Josh Stearns’ one-stop shop for becoming a verification expert | Bleacher Report – The Writers Blog http://stearns.wordpress.com/2013/05/09/a-crash-course-in-verification-and-misinformation-in-the-wake-of-the-boston-bombing/#comment-6689 Wed, 15 May 2013 15:46:16 +0000 http://stearns.wordpress.com/?p=1385#comment-6689 […] Stearns also tweeted a link to his more recent post, A Crash Course in Verification and Misinformation in the Wake of the Boston Bombing. “My hope is to pull out some key lessons and analysis from those many Boston links into a […]

]]> Comment on Trust and Verify: How I Curate My List of Journalist Arrests by Josh Stearns’ one-stop shop for becoming a verification expert | Bleacher Report – The Writers Blog http://stearns.wordpress.com/2011/11/21/trust-and-verify-how-i-curate-my-list-of-journalist-arrests/#comment-6687 Wed, 15 May 2013 13:29:30 +0000 http://stearns.wordpress.com/?p=896#comment-6687 […] who writes that he has “developed a healthy obsession with verification,” […]

]]> Comment on Verifying Social Media Content: The Best Links, Case Studies and Discussion by Josh Stearns’ one-stop shop for becoming a verification expert | Bleacher Report – The Writers Blog http://stearns.wordpress.com/2013/03/18/verifying-social-media-content-the-best-links-case-studies-and-discussion/#comment-6686 Wed, 15 May 2013 13:29:27 +0000 http://stearns.wordpress.com/?p=1340#comment-6686 […] calls his post, headlined Verifying Social Media Content: The Best Links, Case Studies and Discussion, “a work in progress.” It has to be, because social media and its related tools are […]

]]> Comment on A Crash Course in Verification and Misinformation in the Wake of the Boston Bombing by Verification and Misinformation | The Truth of The Matter Is...... http://stearns.wordpress.com/2013/05/09/a-crash-course-in-verification-and-misinformation-in-the-wake-of-the-boston-bombing/#comment-6642 Fri, 10 May 2013 15:03:49 +0000 http://stearns.wordpress.com/?p=1385#comment-6642 […] Josh Stearns, author of the blog Groundswell, has accumulated a number of links to various pieces that tackle the issue of verifying information b… […]

]]> Comment on A Crash Course in Verification and Misinformation in the Wake of the Boston Bombing by Breaking news, social media and verification | Media Nation http://stearns.wordpress.com/2013/05/09/a-crash-course-in-verification-and-misinformation-in-the-wake-of-the-boston-bombing/#comment-6641 Fri, 10 May 2013 14:30:16 +0000 http://stearns.wordpress.com/?p=1385#comment-6641 […] Stearns, the hardest-working man in media reform, has published his keynote address as well as a blog post on misinformation and verification following the marathon […]

]]> Comment on Rewriting the Story of Journalism by Breaking news, social media and verification | Media Nation http://stearns.wordpress.com/2013/05/08/rewriting-the-story-of-journalism/#comment-6640 Fri, 10 May 2013 14:30:14 +0000 http://stearns.wordpress.com/?p=1375#comment-6640 […] addition, Stearns, the hardest-working man in media reform, has published his keynote address as well as a blog post on misinformation and verification following the marathon […]

]]> Comment on Verifying Social Media Content: The Best Links, Case Studies and Discussion by A Crash Course in Verification and Misinformation in the Wake of the Boston Bombing | Groundswell http://stearns.wordpress.com/2013/03/18/verifying-social-media-content-the-best-links-case-studies-and-discussion/#comment-6628 Thu, 09 May 2013 15:08:59 +0000 http://stearns.wordpress.com/?p=1340#comment-6628 […] Some of the best posts were the most concrete, editors, journalists and citizens discussing their best practices and guidelines for responsible reporting and careful verification. There is a lot of good advice contained in these posts. (For more concrete advice see my ongoing round-up of tools and resources for verifying social media content) […]

]]> Comment on Rewriting the Story of Journalism by Anon http://stearns.wordpress.com/2013/05/08/rewriting-the-story-of-journalism/#comment-6616 Wed, 08 May 2013 18:42:07 +0000 http://stearns.wordpress.com/?p=1375#comment-6616 ” it becomes harder to know who to trust. ”

And, given that trust is the coin of the influence-on-public-opinion realm, there will be narrative wars, efforts to sway the story. Don’t get in the middle of one of those.

]]> Comment on Verifying Social Media Content: The Best Links, Case Studies and Discussion by Rewriting the Story of Journalism | Groundswell http://stearns.wordpress.com/2013/03/18/verifying-social-media-content-the-best-links-case-studies-and-discussion/#comment-6613 Wed, 08 May 2013 13:07:36 +0000 http://stearns.wordpress.com/?p=1340#comment-6613 [...] is no simple thing, and rebuilding trust is even more complex. Thankfully, there are also great examples of journalists engaging their communities in new ways, forging mutual relationships with their [...]

]]> Comment on Journalism as a Service, Not a Product by Rewriting the Story of Journalism | Groundswell http://stearns.wordpress.com/2011/12/09/journalism-as-a-service-not-a-product/#comment-6612 Wed, 08 May 2013 13:07:24 +0000 http://stearns.wordpress.com/?p=929#comment-6612 [...] her paper on “Open Journalism,” the longtime editor Melanie Sill argues that “we must reorder the fundamental processes of [...]

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