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Internet for Journalists: Advanced Searching

Internet for Journalists: Advanced Searching. Introduction and Overview. Knowledge is of two kinds; we know a subject ourselves, or we know where we can find information upon it. - Samuel Johnson 1775. What you said…. Get the most out of Google

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Internet for Journalists: Advanced Searching

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  1. Internet for Journalists: Advanced Searching Introduction and Overview

  2. Knowledge is of two kinds; we know a subject ourselves, or we know where we can find information upon it. - Samuel Johnson 1775

  3. What you said… • Get the most out of Google • Effectively scan the worlds newspapers, organisations and other places, for news • Find accurate, reliable, and recent information - in no time... • Get to pages hidden within sites - quickly • Find new databases with useful information instead of just stumbling on them • Learn how to monitor sites and new information

  4. Most interested in learning about… • Better search skills • How to use Google more effectively • Difference between “surface” and “deep” web • Finding “disappeared” pages / saving pages • New search sites beyond Google • Using newsgroups / listservs

  5. Schedule – Day 1 10:00 – 10:30 Introductions / Results of the Survey 10:30 – 11:00 Overview of Information on the Internet 11:00 – 12:00 Internet Search Basics 12:00 – 13:00 Lunch 13:00 – 15:00 Advanced Searching 15:15 – 16:15 The Deep Web: Searching within sites 16:15 – 17:00 The Dead Web: Save or lose it 17:00 – 17:45 Beyond Google: New Search Sites

  6. Schedule – Day 2 9:00 – 10:00 But can you trust it? Site Evaluation 10:00 – 12:00 Digging Deeper: Specialty Sites 12:00 – 13:30 Lunch 13:30 – 14:30 You can run, but you can’t hide: People Finding Tools 14:30 – 15:15 Everyone’s talking: Newsgroups, Listservs, Forums 15:30 – 17:30 Social Networking for Research and Connection

  7. Schedule – Day 3 9:00 – 11:00 Finding and Using Statistics and Public Records Online 11:00 – 12:00 Setting up Alerts and Feeds 12:00 – 13:30 Lunch 13:30 – 15:30 Developing a Beat with Internet Resources 15:30 – 16:30 Research Challenge: Who can Find it Fastest? 16:30 – 17:30 What did we miss? 17:30 – 18:00 Graduation

  8. Services • Browsing, Email • Functions • Physical lines, data routing • Organizations • ISPs, web-hosting services http://poo4.blogspot.com/2007/08/what-is-internet.html

  9. Where web content comes from • Individuals Informal sources • Organizations Institutional sources • Businesses • Governments • Associations • Universities Scholarly sources • News organizations Journalistic sources

  10. Heparin Recall in Denmark • Institutional Sources • Baxter: corporate, recall • Lawyers: Heparin Contamination • FDA: Heparin recall • Informal Sources • Newsgroups: Google Groups • Opinions: Technorati • Crowdsourcing: Wikipedia • Journalistic Sources • Google News: news.google.com • Politiken: politiken.dk • Scholarly Sources • Google Scholar: scholar.google.com • Aggregators • Google Finance: finance.google.com

  11. Message Analysis Context Content What is the topic? Topic terminology Questions to be answered Narrowing the focus Who is my audience? Message purpose Message time and space Message format and channel Potential Contributors Institutional Sources Scholarly Sources Journalistic Sources Informal Sources • monitor • search • interview • monitor • search • interview • monitor • search • interview • monitor • search • interview Evaluate and Select Synthesize Craft the Message The Information Strategy Model

  12. But it’s not just knowing HOW And it’s not just know WHERE It’s knowing WHY

  13. Novo Nordisk • Novonordisk.com • Wikipedia • Google Groups • Google Scholar • Google Finance – ADR • Technorati • Facebook (people who worked there) • Linkedin (jobs search in advanced) • Del.icio.us • Europa • USAspending.gov • Google Alerts

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