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“When one of their partners comes across a notable piece of social media content and aren’t sure of its origin, they often call Storyful to hunt it down and get an answer ... This is the holy grail of real-time news coverage: being able to match context with content in a way that reveals hidden truth. Or events that are just now becoming newsworthy.” Craig Silverman - Columbia Journalism Review “Storyful has become an indispensable tool in our daily news production in both our online and broadcast operations. The service has really helped FRANCE 24 differentiate its coverage, particularly during periods of breaking news when sourcing reliable social media content is especially difficult.”
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For example, we used the term “Christmas trees” to create a Montage of our own. We picked a fairly standard web-magazine format, then we were able to customize each “widget” or compartment of the layout with a WYSIWYG editor. We added images, a Twitter term trend chart, news articles and more. When the editing part was done, we were able to tag our visual scrapbook, share it with our Facebook and Twitter networks and then publish it to a unique web page. However, we should note that (surprise, surprise) the app didn’t always play nicely with our recently acquired Chromebook and the Chrome web browser.
Microsoft Introduces Montage, a Magazine-Like, Topic-Based Web App
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