Archive for the churnalism Tag

Moving away from ‘the story’: 5 roles of an online investigations team

In almost a decade of teaching online journalism I repeatedly come up against the same two problems: people who are so wedded to the idea of the self-contained ‘story’ that they struggle to create journalism outside of that (e.g. the journalism of linking, liveblogging, updating, explaining, or saying what they don’t know); and people stuck in the habit of churning
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Signals of churnalism?

On Friday I had quite a bit of fun with Churnalism.com, a new site from the Media Standards Trust which allows you to test how much of a particular press release has been reproduced verbatim by media outlets. The site has an API, which got me thinking whether you might be able to ‘mash’ it with an RSS feed from
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Tracking Figures

This morning there is a story on the Torygraph website about remuneration of Directors in companies in the Stock Exchange 350 index.

Churnalism in a Petri Dish

This morning there is a story on the Torygraph website about remuneration of Directors in companies in the Stock Exchange 350 index.