Free Post Twitter Five Morning Links #3: investigative podcasts, Twitter metrics and newsletter strategy secrets More useful reads to make your morning coffee feel really useful — as well as tasty.
Free Post lyra mckee Investigative journalist Lyra McKee shot dead in Derry. Lyra McKee, a friend and talented investigative journalist, has been shot dead in Derry in a suspected terrorist incident.
Free Post facebook How the Brexit votes of a Welsh town turned Carole Cadwalladr into an investigative journalist An inspiring - and fascinating - talk into how a simple feature put the Observer journalist on the trail of the biggest Facebook scandal.
Free Post cuts Exaro going editor-free? Exaro going editor-free? Exaro editor-in-chief Mark Watts, as quoted by The Guardian‘s Jasper Jackson: It is true that Exaro is facing around a halving of its editorial budget, but
Free Post city university Freedom of Information at 10: a debate A panel discussion on the Freedom of Information Act after 10 years, held at City University, London. As Chair Roy Greenslade points out, we’re meeting in the shadow of Press Gazette being told that they should no longer make FOI requests to the
Free Post crowd funding Hacks/Hackers Brighton - making Matter and exposing eavesdropping Bobbie Johnson – making Matter matter About a year ago – he got pissed off. He came from The Guardian which has a “troubled” relationship with profit. Why does the meaty, good
Free Post books Morning Coffee Reading - 3rd August 2011 Stuff crossing my information superhighway radar this morning: Seven books that journalists working online should read – up to 9, with recommendations in the comments How I tracked down an entire family from one tweet – Joanna make s triumphant return to blogging with a concise
Free Post elections Electoral Fraud and Violence Against Journalists I’m surprised by how little reaction to this story has cropped up amongst the social spaces I inhabit online: > I didn’t, but I explained I was a journalist for [The Independent](http://www.independent.co.uk/ "The Independent") looking to speak to
Free Post investigative journalism Using the Web in Investigative Journalism A really nice example of how the Sunday Times/Dispatches investigation used the web to give credibility to its sting operation on those dodgy Labour politicians. The first thing people do these days when dealing with a new company of individual is Google them
Free Post digidave The Future of Investigative Journalism While I’m in an embedding mood, this interview with DigiDave by John Welsh is well worth watching, for its thoughts about how journalism might be funded in future: [Interview with David Cohn](http://vimeo.com/4002673) from [John Welsh/These Digital Times](http:
Free Post investigative journalism Tony Collins Talks Investigative Journalism I’m at our second Elevenses event at RBI. [Tony Collins](http://www.computerweekly.com/blogs/tony_collins/) is talking about investigative journalism. Some key points to follow:- You have to build trust with contacts – and that can mean not running stories instially
