On the day that Parliament released MPs’ expenses in their ‘official’ form, I was hawking around on Twitter trying to find a good way to crowdsource analysis of the documents (this was before The Guardian’s crowdsourcing tool went live). Central to the problem was that the expenses were presented in search-unfriendly PDFs. So I was looking for a place people
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A model for the 21st century newsroom pt2: Distributed Journalism
In the first part of my model for the 21st century newsroom I looked at how a story might move through a number of stages from initial alert through to customisation. In part two I want to look at sourcing stories, and the role of journalism in a new media world. This post is also available in Russian. The last
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