Previously this serialised chapter for the forthcoming book Investigative Journalism: Dead or Alive? looked at new business models surrounding investigative journalism and online investigative journalism as a genre. This third and final part looks at how changing supplies of information change the context within which investigative journalism operates. What next for investigative journalism in a world of information overload? But this
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The first part of this serialised chapter for the forthcoming book Investigative Journalism: Dead or Alive? looked at new business models surrounding investigative journalism. This second part looks at how new ways of gathering, producing and distributing investigative journalism are emerging online. Online investigative journalism as a genre Over many decades print and broadcast investigative journalism have developed their own
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Earlier this year I was asked to write a chapter for a book on the future of investigative journalism – ‘Investigative Journalism: Dead Or Alive?‘. I’m reproducing it here. The chapter was originally published on my Facebook page. An open event around the book’s launch, with a panel discussion, is being held at the Frontline Club next month. We may
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Over the weekend the BBC had to deal with the embarrassing ignorance of someone in their complaints department who appeared to believe that images shared on Twitter were “public domain” and “therefore … not subject to the same copyright laws” as material outside social networks. A blog post, from online communities adviser Andy Mabbett, gathered thousands of pageviews in a
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Plenty of others have given their own opinion on MP Louise Mensch’s suggestion that authorities should be able to shut down social media during civil unrest, so I just want to add a couple of experiences: Here’s the first: when rumours spread about children being kidnapped in supermarket toilets, they first spread by text message (not social media). When they
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If you prefer to read me in Spanish or Catalan, the following may be of interest: ¿Qué es el periodismo de datos? Paul Bradshaw: ‘Un mur de pagament sense invertir en distribució ni en contingut propi no és una estratègia viable’ Paul Bradshaw: “Wikileaks és una lliçó per al periodisme”
Few things sum up the division of the UK around the riots like the sentencing of those involved. Some think courts are too lenient, while others gape at six month sentences for people who stole a bottle of water. These judgments are often made on the basis of a single case, rather than any overall view. And you might think,
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Here’s a quick experiment in data visualisation to provide an instant insight into a story on how the blame game is being played by columnists. The data is taken from a Liberal Conspiracy blog post – I’ve transferred that into a spreadsheet with limited categories and used the Gauges gadget to visualise the totals. A screengrab is below – but
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Google Fusion Tables is great for creating interactive maps from a spreadsheet – but it isn’t too keen on easting and northing. That can be a problem as many government and local authority datasets use easting and northing to describe the geographical position of things – for example, speed cameras. So you’ll need a way to convert easting and northing
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