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A template for '100 percent reporting'

Last night Jay Rosen blogged about a wonderful framework for networked journalism – what he calls the ‘100 percent solution‘: “First, you set a goal to cover 100 percent of… well, of something. In trying to reach the goal you immediately run into problems. To solve those problems you often have to improvise or innovate. And that’s the payoff, even if
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The Guardian’s tool to crowdsource MPs’ expenses data: time to play

      Investigate your MP’s expenses via kwout So here’s The Guardian’s crowdsourcing tool for MPs’ expenses. If you’ve not already, you should have a play: it’s a dream. There are over 77,000 documents to get through – and in less than 24 hours users have gone through over 50,000 of those. You wonder how long it took The Telegraph
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