I’ve been asked to write a book chapter on ‘Investigative journalism and blogs’ for the next edition of ‘Investigative Journalism’. If you know of any examples where blogs have been used for investigative journalism, or useful contacts, please let me know.
I would also particularly welcome anyone who is interesting in co-authoring the book chapter via a wiki. Continue reading
Too much to report from PICNIC 07 and the European Bloggers Unconference – I’ll try to summarise in a future post. For the moment suffice to say if you ever get the chance to attend this fabulous event, take it. It’s like a music festival for media types, with every venue lit up by the warm glow of a hundred wifi laptops/camcorders/mobile phones. All that blogging/Twittering/YouTubeing/Flickring is aggregated at http://picnic07.vpro.nl
Meanwhile, the official production was excellent. Two highlights to catch:
Here’s a great example of Flash journalism from USA Today. The ‘Candidate match game’ allows you to see which candidate’s views match yours most closely by answering 11 questions on issues ranging from the Iraq war to same-sex marriage and health insurance.
A particularly nice touch is the sliders which allow you to ‘weight’ each issue – so if health care is more important to you, and you couldn’t care less about immigration, you can skew the results accordingly. More “news you can use”, and less politics-as-spectator-sport. Nice.
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