The relationship between social media and journalism is increasingly important in our society. On one hand, social media are the main channels of journalistic information diffusion. On the other hand, they are an almost bottomless source of information and contents for journalists themselves. The Social Sensing for Breaking News (SmartNews) project, financed by the Tuscany Region, was born out of the idea to apply the paradigm of social sensing to the world of journalism, and has the goal of creating a tool to manage the breaking news to help journalists through the different phases of this process.
