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And so here is where news readers become investigative journalists, reading original Palin emails and filling out a corresponding survey to report how interesting or suspicious they are. When...
ProPublica is a non-profit newsroom that produces investigative journalism in the public interest.And, their approach to these issues is to thread comments next to the document, enable users to...
Different people are contributing to the project in different ways. * Journalists and bloggers who need help with getting answers to a question (extra eyes on data, legwork), or finding...
Jonah Lehrer is the latest unwitting target of the Google Game. It began after Jim Romenesko first reported that the writer self-plagiarized in a New Yorker blog post. From there, journalists and...
It’s time journalists stopped treating crowdsourcing as the enemy. Crowdsourced content is not meant to rival the New York Times. It’s a high volume, low cost writing model: a fast-growing...
The growing use of social media such as Facebook and Twitter are all good tools that investigative journalists should use for reference only. One investigative tool that can be useful and improve...
In a guest post by Paul Bradshaw, the visting professor at City University, course leader at Birmingham City University, and founder of the investigative journalism crowdsourcing site Help Me...
Once Cochran and Haeg described the concept, it didn’t take long for the conference room — full even on a Saturday morning — to generate ideas. They could document the privatization of government...
The Knight Foundation provided funding for the project but 15 percent of the budget was raised by crowdsourcing funds online. "Having a group of donors added something usually not done for a...
Jason Felch, an investigative journalist and author of Chasing Aphrodite: The Hunt for Looted Antiquities at the World’s Richest Museum, is currently working on an ambitious crowdsourcing project looking to combat illegal art trading.
The thought behind WikiLoot, a new project by two well-respected American investigative journalists, is to help solve a problem on the trade in stolen artworks as large enough on some estimates...
Citizens crowdsource incident awareness up, and responders crowdsource justice down, nearly in real time. The trick is that anonymity is provided to everyone, although such a system would know a...
Investigative journalists rely increasingly on "hobby muckrakers" – citizens who do some informal research and pass it on to units such as the M&G Centre for Investigative Journalism...
Crowdsourcing allows the public to access data collected by journalists, speeding analysis and adding diversity to context.
CrowdTrust is a web-based service to help small newsrooms and independent reporters improve their investigative reporting with a “brain trust” of interested community members, subject experts and...
In this short paper, they have outlined their vision for a system to support collaborative investigative journalism. They have focused on several features of the system to highlight a few...
Obtaining information from the crowd has had three main effects on journalism: It has allowed for a wider scope of general observations. Secondly, on a more real-time scale, audiences have...
NewsIt is hardly the first experiment with crowdsourced journalism. (Here’s a story that combines two examples — last fall, Spot.us, which uses crowdfunding to support investigative journalism,...
Journalists should not be nice; the truth is not served by politeness. Citizen journalists need to get off Twitter for five minutes, make phone calls, and start investigating. As a citizen...
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