Category Archives: Searching

Jul 01

Google’s Research Guru Dan Russell Offers Weekly Tips That Can Make You A Better Searcher

Posted on July 1, 2015 by Barbara Fought

note: after 6 months, ReadyReporter is back and ready to give you more tips for quicker, better, smarter reporting. One of the most popular seminars at the Investigative Reporters and Editors Conference each year is the one led by Goggle’s … Read More →

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Nov 07

Help For Students (and Professionals) on the Job Hunt

Posted on November 7, 2014 by Barbara Fought

I just talked with a student who is being graduated in December about how to look for jobs. So it’s that time again. Earlier I posted a list of six free job sites for those interested in jobs in radio, … Read More →

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Sep 26

Quick Trick to Find Candidate’s Supporters

Posted on September 26, 2014 by Barbara Fought

It’s political season. Perhaps you want to find a good source who is supporting Candidate X.  You want something better than person-on-the-street interviews. One underused source for who is supporting a certain candidate is your state or federal elections website. … Read More →

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Jul 23

People Finders: Backgrounding People

Posted on July 23, 2014 by Barbara Fought

At #IRE14 I picked up some great tips for how to background people, or confirm they are who they say they are (or whom you think they are).  Here are 5 good ones: LICENSING: Many professions are licensed. BRB Publications … Read More →

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Jun 03

Killer App for Searching the Web is MindMeld

Posted on June 3, 2014 by Barbara Fought

So how great would it be if you would just talk about what you need to know and immediately your hand-held device would interpret what you say and send you relevant information about places, subjects and facts that you’re talking … Read More →

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May 29

Foursquare Splits in Two. Less Helpful for Sources.

Posted on May 29, 2014 by Barbara Fought

I loved the technique I discovered of how journalists could find a good source for a story that related to a particular location.  The person who checked in at a venue the most — and thus might be a good … Read More →

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May 22

Symbaloo Offers A Webpage of Bookmarks

Posted on May 22, 2014 by Barbara Fought

I’m in a week of training on better ways to teach with technology and one of the cool tools I’ve learned is Symbaloo.  If you’re like me you run out of bookmark tabs on your browser and it’s a hassle … Read More →

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May 09

Ways to Search for Journalism Jobs Online — for Free

Posted on May 9, 2014 by Barbara Fought

It’s graduation season, which means a lot of job-hunting is going on. Of course those looking for their first journalism job are on the market, but so may be those who got their first job a year or two ago … Read More →

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Oct 02

TwXplorer Offers More Ways to Search Twitter

Posted on October 2, 2013 by Barbara Fought

I tweeted out the link to TwXplorer a few days ago but just had a chance to try it myself. It’s a new Knight Foundation lab search tool for twitter. It offers you the last 500 tweets on a keyword, plus it gives you … Read More →

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Sep 09

Search Twitter With Topsy

Posted on September 9, 2013 by Barbara Fought

I’ve written before  that Twitter’s own  search only lasts a few days so it’s difficult to find tweets more than a week old. So I’ve recommended you try Topsy  for searches. Now great news. Topsy, as of last week, has … Read More →

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