Tools from the digital newsroom

If you are a journalist under pressure to write 40 page leads and 132 nibs by lunchtime then it may well be worth reading online journalism.co.uk where Paul Bradshaw who seems to crop up more and more on this vlog writes of some of the tools that you can use besides just googling.

It is refered to as "Passive-Aggressive Newsgathering". and is the art of using Rss and Social media to search for stories and leads

1. Blog and site feeds/Social RSS readers
2. Technorati feeds, fans and tags
3. Twitter and twitter tools
4. Bookmarking site feeds, networks and tags
5. Social network feeds
6. Google Alerts/'similar pages'
7. YouTube feeds/related videos