Identifying and verifying new information quickly are key issues for journalists who use
social media. This article examines what tools journalists think they need to cope with the
growing volume and complexity of news on social media, and what improvements are
needed in existing systems. It gives some initial results from a major European Union
research project (Social Sensor), involving computer scientists, journalists, and media
researchers, that is designing a new tool to search across social media for news stories, to …