Observation Deck
A systemic way of searching that allows you to combine words and phrases using 'operators' like "AND, OR" to limit, broaden, or define your search
What is a Boolean Search?
The plan for a website, generally made up of grayscale boxes of content that used to test the fundamentals
What are Wireframes?
First Draft's immersive live training event to help newsrooms prepare for online threats.
What are Simulations?
What is Notion?
You can join this channel to enjoy the cool tunes and earworms shared by fellow First Drafters
What is #Sound_Of_The_Day?
A tool from Facebook that helps you follow, analyze, and report on what’s happening across social media.
What is Crowdtangle?
Our very patient web developers, who built the original First Draft website in 2015 with a budget of just £3k
A series of visual and highly practical nuggets of information and advice on how to safely investigate and report on online spaces.
What are Flashcards?
An acronym that represents the role of an individual on project that provides oversight and responsibility for the ongoing work.
What is a DRI (Directly Responsible Individual)?
Born from a conversation by Adam and Chris about whats on Netflix that worth watching
What is #movie-recommendations?
A monitoring tool, owned and developed by Maarten Schenk from Lead Stories, a wonderful fact-checking friend of First Draft
What is Trendolizer?
An abbreviation which commonly refers to how a user navigates a website or app, but it can also apply to offline scenarios, such as visiting a shop.
What is UX (User Experience)?
A quiz series on our training page that challenges you to find the location of where the photograph was taken
What is an Observation Challenge?
A quarterly document, produced by First Draft to report to its funders, partners, employees and other stakeholders, on the key achievements, highlights and successes of that time period.
What is Impact Report?
The now archived channel set up with the ambition of keeping the London offices' lunchtime ritual of gathering around the big grey table near the kitchen
What is #thegreytable?
We use these guys for predictive media intelligence. It provides real-time social media monitoring, dashboards and alerts
Whats is Newswhip?
The web developer, based in Poland, that First Draft works with to create CrossCheck
Who are Ready4S?
The name given to the various factsheets and checklists on misinformation that started as part of our vaccine insights project
What is a 'Snapshot'?
A BBC-led coalition of publishers and platforms, including First Draft, thats designed to alert all members when harmful misinformation poses a threat to life.
What is TNI (Trusted News Initiative)?
The place to go for reviews on TikTok pasta and great restaurants (remember those?)
What is #Gourmands?
A service provider First Draft uses to centralize the collection of problematic content so that everyone can benefit from a shared understanding of what threats exist and how to respond to them.
What is Junkipedia?
An architecture and set of tools designed to monitor online information flow to help First Draft’s staff, CrossCheck members understand and cover disinformation
What is Bosphorus?
An online learning portal that has hosted our Covid training course since April 2020
What is LearnUpon?
A document that is used to plan and brief editorial pieces that stands for Plan, Audience, Platform, Engagement and Deadline.
What is PAPED?
Behind the scenes pics and gossip from a First Draft event (when they weren't on a Zoom!)
What is #livefromfirstdraft?