Continuing the serialisation of the research underpinning a new Help Me Investigate project, in this fourth part I describe how one particular investigation took shape. Previous parts are linked below: Part 1: Investigative journalism; conceptualising Help Me Investigate Part 2: Building the site Part 3: Reflections on the Proof of Concept phase Case study: the London Weekly investigation In early 2010 Andy Brightwell and
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The Independent newspaper has introduced a fascinating new feature on the site that allows users to follow articles by individual writers and news about specific football teams via Facebook. It’s one of those ideas so simple you wonder why no one else appears to have done it before*: instead of just ‘liking’ individual articles, or having to trudge off to
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As part of an ongoing series on recent graduates who have gone into online journalism, Dave Lee talks about how he won a BBC job straight from university, what it involves, and what skills he feels online journalists need today. I got my job as a result – delightfully! – of having a well-known blog. Well, that is, well-known in the
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Here’s another collection of Q&As from a correspondent, published here to prevent repetition: 1. How do you feel about the opinions published in your blog being used by journalists in the news? I’m not clear what you mean by this question, but broadly speaking if my opinions are properly attributed then I am fine with it. 2. Why do you
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This is just a bit of curious fun. I can think of a few stories I heard first on Twitter. They are: The assassination of Benazir Bhutto (via @martinstabe) The Chinese earthquake (via @scobleizer) The deaths of Bo Diddley and Ted Rogers The resignation of Roy Keane as manager of Sunderland Bank of England lowering interest rate to 2% Russian
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What happens when you bring together local journalists, bloggers, web publishers, online journalism experts and new media startups – and get them talking? That was the question that JEEcamp sought to answer: an ‘unconference’ around journalism enterprise and entrepreneurship that looked to tackle some of the big questions facing news in 2008: how do you make money from news when
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