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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.
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.
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.
cuts
Exaro going editor-free?
Exaro going editor-free? [http://www.theguardian.com/media/2016/jun/02/exaro-mark-watts-redundant-investigative-news] 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.
City St George’s
Freedom of Information at 10: a debate
A panel discussion on the Freedom of Information Act after 10 years, held at City University, London. [https://i0.wp.com/www.onemanandhisblog.com/content/images/2015/02/city-uni-foi-at-10-panel.jpg] As Chair Roy Greenslade [http://www.theguardian.com/profile/roygreenslade] points out, we’re meeting in the shadow of Press
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 in-depth investigative stuff he likes not really exist online? Why does it need paper subsidy to make it work. And
books
Morning Coffee Reading - 3rd August 2011
Stuff crossing my information superhighway radar this morning: * Seven books that journalists working online should read [http://onlinejournalismblog.com/2011/08/03/7-books-that-every-journalist-working-online-should-read/] – up to 9, with recommendations in the comments * How I tracked down an entire family from one tweet [http://www.joannageary.com/2011/08/02/privacy-and-social-media-investigation-how-i-tracked-down-an-entire-family-from-one-tweet/] – Joanna
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 a man at
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 [http://themediablog.typepad.com/the-media-blog/2010/03/how-to-con-a-greedy-mp-sunday-times-style.html] to its sting operation on those dodgy Labour politicians. The first thing people do these days when dealing with a new company of individual
digidave
The Future of Investigative Journalism
While I’m in an embedding mood, this interview with DigiDave [http://www.digidave.org/] by John Welsh [http://johnwelsh.wordpress.com/2009/04/04/interview-with-david-cohn-the-future-of-investigative-journalism/] is well worth watching, for its thoughts about how journalism might be funded in future: [Interview with David Cohn](http://vimeo.com/4002673) from
investigative journalism
Tony Collins Talks Investigative Journalism
[http://www.onemanandhisblog.com/assets_c/2009/03/3367879692_2be4431b30_b-1261.html] 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