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.…
investigative journalism
A collection of 8 posts
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…
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/…
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…