Lyra McKee, a friend and talented investigative journalist, has been shot dead in Derry in a suspected terrorist incident.
investigative journalism
A collection of 10 posts
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.
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 how this will be carried out is not yet finalised.…
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…
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 in-depth investigative stuff he likes not really exist online? Why…
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…
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"…
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…