Looking Back at News Impact Summit: Tweets and Links (#NISHBR)

News Impact Summit in Hamburg

I visited the inspiring News Impact Summit in Hamburg yesterday, a media innovation event which is organised by the European Journalism Centre (EJC) in cooperation with the News Lab at Google. On the occasion of the book release of the „Verification Handbook for Investigative Reporting“, it focused on the theme “Verification, Investigation and Digital Ethics“ – mixing keynote speeches, ignite talks, panel discussions and training sessions with international experts. It will be followed by events in Paris (April 28), Madrid, London, Amsterdam, Warsaw and Prague later in the year which also will be free of charge (link to press release).

I collected the most interesting tweets (hashtag: #NISHBR) and most helpful links:

News Impact Summit of @EJCNet at Altes Hauptzollamt #Hamburg. http://t.co/aca0tFy9Kt #NISHBR pic.twitter.com/AQHdcsm4xD

— Peter Jebsen (@pjebsen) March 31, 2015

.@grove "Google Trends http://t.co/q5pq1993Uq will be relaunched later this year as a tool for journalists" #NISHBR pic.twitter.com/rGMBNA0aMA

— Antoine Laurent (@anto_l) March 31, 2015

The Verification Handbook. Really a great resource. Download here http://t.co/AQ6qb1uRsb #nishbr

— Meike Richter (@immateriell) March 31, 2015

Deutschland war laut Google Land mit den zweitmeisten Suchanfragen zur Sonnenfinsternis. Platz Nr 1: die Färöer-Inseln. #nishbr

— NDRnetzwelt (@NDRnetzwelt) March 31, 2015

"Social media as a Wild West", seems an appropriate description of UGC use in news journalism. #nishbr

— Irene Broer (@irenebroer) March 31, 2015

Amateur Footage: A Global Study of User-Generated Content in TV and Online News Output http://t.co/qlyZARuKKM #nishbr @emhub

— Leonie Puscher (@LPuscher) March 31, 2015

Only 16% of social media media contributions credited to source, 20% identified as UGC @Jennisarge research at #nishbr

— Rohan Jayasekera (@rohanjay) March 31, 2015

'People are scared of the V-Word' @Jennisarge about verification of #ugc in newsrooms #nishbr

— Verena Stöckigt (@StickysNotes) March 31, 2015

"Managers still don't know what their journalists on the ground are doing with eyewitness media." – J.Sargent #nishbr pic.twitter.com/dYIrlJfS2p

— Fiete Stegers (@fiete_stegers) March 31, 2015

Neue Richtlinien für Social Media bei der #BBC: 'Don't do anything stupid.' http://t.co/xnKon9GqWc #nishbr pic.twitter.com/uOe1oZ525z

— Stephan Ebmeyer (@sebmeyer) March 31, 2015

"Advanced verification… takes hours, basic verification takes minutes," says @Jennisarge at #nishbr. Word.

— Jan Eggers (@JanEggers) March 31, 2015

"The truth about rumor" – view of @CraigSilverman #nishbr pic.twitter.com/6Dkg341ocA

— Verena Stöckigt (@StickysNotes) March 31, 2015

Lies, Damn Lies & Viral Content @CraigSilverman's report for @TowCenter http://t.co/PkU6UrQ1RV as discussed at #nishbr

— Rohan Jayasekera (@rohanjay) March 31, 2015

Tipps zur Verifikation von Social-Inhalten & eine Version von @CraigSilverman|s Buch gibts auch in Deutsch: http://t.co/bXUZY3eITN #nishbr

— Konrad Weber (@konradweber) March 31, 2015

To @CraigSilverman, urban legends reference page http://t.co/7aISwyy1wV is "one of the greatest websites in history". #NISHBR @snopes

— Peter Jebsen (@pjebsen) March 31, 2015

Ignite talk by Michael Wegener, Head of Content Centre, ARD News (tagesschau)
This is my first test of bambuser, sorry about the bad quality.

Wie @ElliotHiggins Internet-Bilder analysiert, hat @ZappMM hier vorgestellt: https://t.co/B7I650sYI5 #nishbr

— ZAPP Medienmagazin (@ZappMM) March 31, 2015

Wichtig bei Verifikation von Bilder und Videos: Zeitpunkt der Aufnahme. Dieses Tool via @EliotHiggins hilft: http://t.co/EjnFKhhxUF #nishbr

— Konrad Weber (@konradweber) March 31, 2015

Ignite talk by Torsten Müller of tame

Für mich immer noch die Königsklasse, wenn es um Verifikation und Wahrheitssuche geht: https://t.co/05qEukOHI7 #MH17 #Absturz #nishbr

— Volker Matthies (@Medientrainer77) March 31, 2015

Wow. @DerSPIEGEL has 70 skilled factcheckers from biologists to mideast experts to fillet & verify social media content #nishbr

— Rohan Jayasekera (@rohanjay) March 31, 2015

"The fact-checker is the natural enemy of the journalist" says Hauke Jansse at #nishbr

— Antoine Laurent (@anto_l) March 31, 2015

"First of all, we don't believe anything!" – Hauke Janssen from @DerSPIEGEL about #factchecking #nishbr

— Leonie Puscher (@LPuscher) March 31, 2015

"Our reporters in the field react emotionally; our task as fact checkers is to contrast their feelings" Hauke Janssen #nishbr

— Antoine Laurent (@anto_l) March 31, 2015

"If you are not sure better not publish it" says Hauke Janssen @DerSPIEGEL #nishbr

— Swantje Dake (@sdake) March 31, 2015

Janssen (Spiegel): "Die guten Fotos zum 1. Weltkrieg sind alle Fakes. Aber natürlich suchen sich die Layouter die schönen aus." #nishbr

— ZAPP Medienmagazin (@ZappMM) March 31, 2015

Den Punkt müssten die Kognitionsforscher mal klären: Korrekturen publizieren – befördert das eher Misstrauen oder Vertrauen? #nishbr

— Jan Eggers (@JanEggers) March 31, 2015

You can win credibility when you openly correct mistakes, says Hauke Janssen of @DerSPIEGEL at #nishbr pic.twitter.com/3U7kBTiajC

— Jochen Spangenberg (@jospang) March 31, 2015

Hauke Janssen is definitvely the friendliest dinosaur I have encountered so far #nishbr

— Ellen Schuster (@ellen_sch) March 31, 2015

#nishbr For info about Der Spiegel's fact checking department, see Q&A I did with staffers in 2010: http://t.co/n7OmfcT67X (Fixed hashtag)

— Craig Silverman (@CraigSilverman) March 31, 2015

Verification is a piece of cake. (Lunch break @ News Impact Summit.) #NISHBR pic.twitter.com/nRD8bjlwWm

— Peter Jebsen (@pjebsen) March 31, 2015

So happy that everyone is happy at #nishbr pic.twitter.com/5ez8i7UDkY

— Rina Tsubaki (@wildflyingpanda) March 31, 2015

"I use reverse image search like http://t.co/nyJQ12DXvs or https://t.co/7zbWHNZXd1 more than any other tool" @CraigSilverman #nishbr

— Antoine Laurent (@anto_l) March 31, 2015

.@CraigSilverman Google's reverse image search is his most used tool in #verification. On top of wish-list: 'sort-by-date' button! #nishbr

— DW Innovation (@dw_innovation) March 31, 2015

Helpful verification tools, courtesy of @CraigSilverman: https://t.co/Lj9cDQdD7N #nishbr

— Peter Jebsen (@pjebsen) March 31, 2015

"It's not about verification in a newsroom. It's about producing content" says @CraigSilverman #nishbr

— Swantje Dake (@sdake) March 31, 2015

News Impact Summit #nishbr is a gold mine for user generated content / social media #verification – http://t.co/s57QBpH8s5

— Igor Brigadir (@IgorBrigadir) March 31, 2015

.@CraigSilverman Thanks for great info at #nishbr. According to their site, #exiftool can process videos, as well: http://t.co/Z5nZSMx8Ga

— Wolfgang Wichmann (@Wolllvieh) March 31, 2015

Workshop with Eliot Higgins of Bellingcat on verifying war zone contents

. @EliotHiggins shows Panoramio. Great tool for additional imagery, works like a charm! http://t.co/ZyrnOPX3eE #nishbr #verification

— DW Innovation (@dw_innovation) March 31, 2015

Just trended for #nishbr: "@eliothiggins" (13 tweets): http://t.co/71fnE5ujRa

— Seen Feed (@SeenFeed) March 31, 2015

Amazed and stunned by knowledge, speed, ease and skill with which @EliotHiggins of @bellingcat locates events #nishbr pic.twitter.com/Fbzii8RUP1

— Jochen Spangenberg (@jospang) March 31, 2015

"Just because I bothered to communicate with them, they sent me this amazing material." @EliotHiggins on missed opportunities #nishbr

— Jan Eggers (@JanEggers) March 31, 2015

Kleiner Seitenhieb von @eliothiggins: Geheimdienste könnten ja mal so arbeiten wie er anstatt E-Mail nach den Daten zu durchsuchen. #nishbr

— Jan Eggers (@JanEggers) March 31, 2015

.@EliotHiggins tells us that #verification is not only about mastering the relevant software, it's also about talking to the people. #nishbr

— Ellen Schuster (@ellen_sch) March 31, 2015

Social Sensor App available for free in the App Store: https://t.co/np2LfJPHP2 Only IOS for now #nishbr @socialsensor_ip

— DW Innovation (@dw_innovation) March 31, 2015

.@socialsensor_ip von @dw_innovation selbst testen: http://t.co/ZqV6WDRvo4 #nishbr

— Jan Eggers (@JanEggers) March 31, 2015

Lots of info on "Storytelling with Google Maps": http://t.co/blK933P6tB (via Vanessa Schneider/@vanessagene). #NISHBR

— Peter Jebsen (@pjebsen) March 31, 2015

Final #NISHBR speaker Alan D. Abbey: "This is the most difficult task: to be between journalists and free alcohol." @alanabbey

— Peter Jebsen (@pjebsen) March 31, 2015

Incidentally I'm going to have to use the phrase 'surfing the web' more now @nickdigital says it's dying out! #nishbr

— George Sargent (@georgesarge) March 31, 2015

Alan D. Abbey introduces the Online News Association's "Build Your Own Ethics Code" project: http://t.co/lUSFYvgFn3. #NISHBR @alanabbey

— Peter Jebsen (@pjebsen) March 31, 2015

Day's report of the #nishbr proceedings by @CharlieBeckett http://t.co/RyQmCmjfJh

— Rohan Jayasekera (@rohanjay) March 31, 2015

Early bird prices still available for the Journalism Innovation Summit this May in London: http://t.co/TfzpUfpY4d #jislondon #nishbr

— Rohan Jayasekera (@rohanjay) March 31, 2015

"Transparency is the new objectivity" belongs to David Weinberger, BTW http://t.co/iQoTiYvHcc #nishbr

— Rohan Jayasekera (@rohanjay) March 31, 2015

Top popular tweets, links, hashtags and people from 1.5k tweets during day 2 of #nishbr: https://t.co/e0AVvnRZC7

— Tame (@tame_it) March 31, 2015

A very quick analysis of the Twitter buzz around Newsimpact Summit #nishbr http://t.co/Xdb9vHCbsU via @tame_it

— Torsten Mueller (@mundustorsten) March 31, 2015

Here's one for everyone who came to yesterday's verification workshop #nishbr #Germanwings http://t.co/tLJe0UTKfF

— Charlie Beckett (@CharlieBeckett) April 1, 2015

Re-sharing some wisdom from yesterday's #nishbr event in Hamburg. https://t.co/lrvenHbVAZ

— SAM (@SAM_Desk) April 1, 2015

But how do you know that it’s true? Notes from #nishbr verification workshop http://t.co/5hrq025tSe

— Paulo Schueler (@pauloschueler) April 1, 2015

#nishbr speakers & participants: thank you so much for joining us yesterday! Check amazing photos frm @internet_mafia http://t.co/uMETR5uhw6

— EJC (@ejcnet) April 1, 2015

@ejcnet @pjebsen I've written a piece on #nishbr http://t.co/WwARmp4zwi

— Fiete Stegers (@fiete_stegers) April 10, 2015

Missed the opportunity to join our News Impact Summit on #UGC verification in Hamburg? Here is our recap: http://t.co/Q8ruspuyNv #nishbr

— EJC (@ejcnet) April 23, 2015

Monday tweets (first day)

.@grove: "Google Trends http://t.co/q5pq1993Uq will be relaunched later this year as a tool for journalists" #NISHBR pic.twitter.com/0wA8DZk3c6

— Antoine Laurent (@anto_l) March 30, 2015

Tools für Journalisten von @google. #nishbr http://t.co/rTe9vZBUvA

— Stephan Ebmeyer (@sebmeyer) March 30, 2015

Check out the most important tweets, links, hashtags and people from the 1st day of #nishbr: https://t.co/guw50J5IEd via @tame_it

— Torsten Mueller (@mundustorsten) March 31, 2015

Peter Jebsen
(member of the federal executive board of
German Federation of Journalists DJV)

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