Twitter used to feel like a chore. Now he is a powerful (and fun) friend.

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Twitter used to feel like a chore. Now he is a powerful (and fun) friend.













					


			    





At the beginning of the year, We asked the readers of ProPublica Illinois. What they wanted to know about how we do our work. The reflective and challenging questions have been rolling since then, and we have been answering them in a series of occasional columns. In this office, ProPublica Illinois reporter Melissa Sanchez answers a question about Twitter from a journalism student in Brazil.

How do journalists use Twitter in their work? -Diogo Marques

Thanks for a great question. When I started my own Twitter account in August 2011, as a reporter for El Nuevo Herald in Miami, Twitter felt like a nuisance, this was supposed to be used to attract readers to our stories or build our brand. Occasionally I tweeted about the meetings of the Marathon City Commission that I covered or published links to articles that I liked. But it did not seem to fit naturally in my work.



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Boy, how things have changed. For many journalists, Twitter has become a powerful information tool for crowdsourcing ideas and advice, a platform to tell stories in new ways and a place to interact with readers and each other.

A journalist whose Twitter feed I particularly admire is the Washington Post. David Fahrenthold. During the 2016 presidential campaign, he used the social media platform to share his reports on the expenses of the Donald Trump foundation as it progressed. Instead of worrying about being dug up, he did this openly for anyone to see, and he asked his followers to help him move forward with his reports. He soon had a "virtual army" of reporters, including a woman from Florida who helped him locate a Trump portrait that Trump had purchased through the foundation by scanning the online photos of a Trump golf resort. If you have not already done so, check out this amazing essay he wrote about what it was like to cover Trump that year.

At ProPublica, we use Twitter in several ways. We are targeting him and other social media platforms so that people know how they can reach us with information. We have done it when reporting on topics ranging from Shelters for immigrant children. to maternal mortality.





9 / Are you a current or former employee of a facility? 

Do you have more information or know of a location that we have not seen all together? 

Or have you been stopped there? https://t.co/fKTK9hOTQT pic.twitter.com/UmY68kkTtG

- ProPublica (@ProPublica) June 28, 2018




We also write "threads" of tweets based on our reports, to promote stories, highlight specific pieces that we consider important and even serve as stories in themselves. For example, ProPublica Illinois published a thread of 18 tweets about how Chicago gets its weapons to accompany our first investigation when we launched last fall. The thread showed images of a letter written by a man convicted of selling arms, court documents and photos illegally, as well as providing a general description. of the story of my colleague Mick Dumke.





3 / Just read this letter written by a man from Chicago convicted of selling arms illegally. (He sent it to our reporter @ mickeyd1971): pic.twitter.com/8hz3FiMO3w

- ProPublica Illinois (@ProPublicaIL) October 10, 2017




Like our stories, this thread was edited before its publication. This is because we see these longer threads as self-contained stories that need to be examined for their accuracy and fairness.

Sometimes the threads tell stories that we do not publish elsewhere. Before we had even released, we had published our first thread after realizing that we had disciplinary information about a Chicago police officer whose Facebook posts had drawn scrutiny. That thread, written by my colleagues Jodi S. Cohen, Logan Jaffe and Sandhya Kambhampati, became a critical moment in the small embryonic stage of our store; We learned that we could add value and context to the daily news cycle without making a traditional story, and that Twitter could be a new and powerful friend.

A search column in TweetDeck.


In my own reports, I now use Twitter to be aware of what people are saying about the problems I am covering and to connect with them. To do this, login through TweetDeck, an interface that allows you to do more interesting things on Twitter, including the creation of "columns" of tweets based on specific search terms. For my continued report on Chicago parking fines and debts, for example, I have a column that shows the tweets that mention the words "city tag" and "chicago."

If I see any interesting talk, I can respond or send a message to people asking if they want to talk. I have found sources in this way, and ideas for stories.

More regularly, journalists use Twitter to keep track of headlines or post updates in real time about important meetings or events they are covering. Reporters at the trial of Jason Van Dyke, the Chicago police officer recently convicted of second-degree murder for murdering Laquan McDonald, 17, constantly tweeted from the courtroom. His short messages helped the rest of us to continue the often dramatic testimony as if we were there as well.





Jason Van Dyke's attorney said his daughter's classmates were asking which student was Van Dyke's daughter so he could attack her. "So, yes, I think it's a threat," said attorney Daniel Herbert.

- Stacy St. Clair (@StacyStClair) October 5, 2018




I do not want to leave the impression that everything about Twitter is great. Far from there. Twitter can feel like an echo chamber where journalists, politicians, pop stars and Russian trolls listen to themselves speak. Twitter also subjects some reporters to the harassment and toxic energy level that New York Times reporter Maggie Haberman has described as "the only platform on which people feel free to say things they would never say to someone's face". She felt so frustrated with the vitriol that she had to take a break from the middle.

Also, most people, like my brother who works in construction and my elderly neighbor in Ecuador, do not pay attention to him. And although I love and use Twitter, what gives me more joy and rewards as a reporter are the interactions with people in the real world.

We are all solving this as we move forward. I want to end this with a happy note because the truth is that, despite the drawbacks, Twitter can also be fun. Recently, some journalists in Detroit discovered a new use for Twitter: getting ProPublica to send them pizza.





It will be there in 60-70 minutes. Please tip

- ProPublica (@ProPublica) September 24, 2018




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