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19 Apr

Best practices for community newsrooms

<p><strong>By Melanie Coulson</strong></p>

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13 Mar

Canadian startup Media Spot Me launches; helps journalists find experts

<p><strong>By Tamara Baluja</strong></p><p>When <a href="https://twitter.com/StavrosRougas">Stavros Rougas</a> was a producer at "The Agenda" in Toronto, he says his biggest challenge was chasing down authorative experts to appear on the show. </p><p>"It was always a risk - you never knew whether they were the best in the field, if they were media-savvy," he says. </p>

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14 May

New tool for social media verification carries heavy price tag

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24 Feb

Experts lists: a dangerous, guilty convenience

ByLarry Cornies In Canada’s increasingly lean newsrooms, it’s no secret that experts directories have become a frequently used tool — or crutch, depending on one’s point of view. Whether a […]

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3 Jul

IRE’s Beat Source Guide

Created by Investigative Reporters and Editors, Inc. This site provides access to reporter contacts, links, and resources searchable by beat.

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3 Jul

Find people and experts: a guide from Julian Sher

Producer, author and webmaster of JournalismNet, Julian Sher, has created this guide on how to find people on the internet. By organizing the different tools into categories, the site presents […]

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8 Feb

Sources online: a directory of experts and spokepersons

Sources offers a Canadian site that provides a list of expert contacts and media relations people. It’s a “service for reporters, writers, editors and researchers.” There is a separate category […]

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16 Nov

Researching people on the Internet: tips from the OJR

This two-part article by Paul Grabowicz is published by the Online Journalism Review. Part one focuses on using freely available public records databases on the web to find information about […]

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