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ScribbleLive Spotlight: Top Five Events of the Week

Monday, April 15th, 2013

Fancy knowing about some of the best events our clients have been running recently? We thought you might.

After a short hiatus, our liveblog spotlight series is back, sharing live coverage best practices. Each week, we’ll pick five of the most interesting events and chats, so if you’re looking for some inspiration for your real-time strategy, you’ve come to the right place!

It’s a pretty cosmopolitan bunch this week, as our real-time odyssey takes you to exotic lands such as Venezuela, Australia and the deep South (via Switzerland ).

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Kwame Kilpatrick verdict draws 70,000 viewers

Wednesday, March 13th, 2013

Detroit Free Press readers were glued to the news site’s live coverage of the Kwame Kilpatrick trial verdict on Monday. The former mayor of Detroit was convicted of 24 of the 30 charges laid against him, including fraud and extortion. The live coverage was so successful that when reporter and Pulitzer Prize-winner Jim Schaefer bid adieu to his audience, he also had this to boast: 70000 So how did they do it? (more…)

International journalists still at risk

Tuesday, December 4th, 2012

Tomorrow, Canadian Journalists for Free Expression will be liveblogging their annual awards gala, honouring five brave journalists who risked their reputations and lives to break important stories. And if there was ever any doubt that journalists around the world need protection and recognition, a scan through some recent headlines should put those doubts to rest: (more…)

Why you should not live-tweet Election Day

Monday, November 5th, 2012

What’s your plan for election coverage? BuzzFeed published an interesting article today, looking at the overwhelming number of tweets being sent during the presidential debates and the difficulty it posed to those trying to follow the elections on Twitter. In this post we take a look at the problems Twitter’s growing use has in delivering meaningful political coverage. (more…)

How to liveblog interactive electoral face-offs

Thursday, October 11th, 2012

Have you ever thought about liveblogging a pre-electoral show-down of the most prominent politicians involved in the upcoming elections?

How about getting them answering the concerns of real people in real time? Liveblogs can bring otherwise-unreachable-politicians down to earth and spare one hour of their time to meet the citizens – whether they’re in their office or an airport lounge.

Yesterday, Brussels-based newspaper La Libre - one of the main players in Belgium’s fragmented media landscape – showed the world yet another way liveblogging can be brilliantly applied to the cause of political reporting. Last week, news behemoth CNN and news startup Watchdog.org both live fact-checked the first U.S. Presidential Debate.

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Liveblogging Mexico’s 2012 Presidential election

Tuesday, July 3rd, 2012

Liveblogs help you win elections

Friday, June 1st, 2012

Now that TV mogul PM Silvio Berlusconi is gone – a ‘buffoon’, as the Guardian has called him – a ‘caustic comedian’ and blogger took his place as the new star of Italian political landscape.

Thanks to a wise use of social media tools and web activism, the grass-roots citizens’ association Five Stars Movement leaded by comedian Beppe Grillo managed in fact to take over the northern industrial town of Parma in the last local runoff elections. (more…)