How to cover sports in real time
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Thomas Kleinby robin.minchom on Aug 6, 2013 at 6:47 AM
Tom Klein (@tmsklein) is a freelance multimedia journalist with German public broadcaster ARD. Working on a wide range of journalistic projects for various departments, his main focus lies on the development of formats merging traditional print, radio and television coverage with social media.
In the past few years, Klein has developed and managed a number of Social TV and Social Radio projects for ARD including the 2011 FIFA Women’s World Cup, the UEFA Euro 2012, the UEFA Champions League or the Ironman European Championships 2010-2013.
Klein blogs for the leading German blog on Social TV we.makesocial.tv and teaches journalism students at the University of Applied Sciences in Darmstadt.
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Robert Hodges (@RobertKHodges) is the Social Media Editor for Sky Sports where he works with the editorial and production teams to bring the best out of social media across all platforms. That includes working directly with ScribbleLive to maximise the potential of real-time.Robert Hodgesby robin.minchom on Aug 6, 2013 at 4:41 AMHe has been working at Sky Sports for seven years in Digital Media, is a journalism graduate and supports West Ham United.
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Derrick Goold (@dgoold) is a baseball writer at The St. Louis Post-Dispatch and serves as the paper's lead Cardinals beat writer. He joined the paper in 2001 and moved to the baseball beat in 2004, where he has been active in expanding, improving, and innovating the paper's online baseball content while maintaining the quality of baseball coverage in print.Derrick Gooldby robin.minchom on Aug 6, 2013 at 4:37 AMHe started one of the first newspaper-based baseball blogs, Bird Land, and has maintained it for nearly a decade. A graduate of the University of Missouri's School of Journalism, Goold has previously worked at The New Orleans Times-Picayune and Rocky Mountain News (Denver, Colo.) and been honored for his feature writing, online journalism, and investigative reporting.
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The time commitment. The 24/7/365 news cycle means you're basically on deadline constantly. Ten, 15 years ago you were always on call as a beat writer -- but now the need to produce a story immediately or a Tweet as you report is paramount. Content is constant. That means sometimes you cover news as it is happening, not just for the next day's paper when you have a chance to synthesize information for an article.
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For me, the biggest change has been Twitter...it's changed everything for journalism and how people obtain the news. Gone are the newswires and gone are the days when news organisations could dictate when stories broke. Now anyone can break a story and reach millions of people, which is why Derrick's point about needing to be 24/7 is so relevant. Everything is around the live as it happens as Twitter makes it feel out of date so quickly.
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Good question Kate, it's been a tough nut to crack for us. But we've found the best way is to make it part of the conversations we are having elsewhere. Social Media is a huge part of that, but just as much of it is broadcast as well. We have the advantage of hours of live programming to work with and all the personalities within them. We've tried to bring a flavour of them into our Scribble activity and create something that feels like you are talking to them, then we invite viewers to do just that.