currybetdotnet: “Hacking the rendition flights” – Stephen Grey at Hacks/Hackers London
Tuesday, 29 November 2011, 11:49
“[The] problem wasn’t so much collecting the data in order to analyse it, but getting the data cleaned up and into a format that made it ready to be analysed. He also made the point that you should pick your story and then get the data to support it,…
Propublica: The Opportunity Gap
Friday, 1 July 2011, 11:57
An amazing project: ProPublica's investigation into access to advanced courses in US secondary education includes a database of schools allows users to log in with Facebook to look up their school. There are individual pages for each state, distri…
Paul Bradshaw: The investigated ‘investigate’: Primark does Panorama
Friday, 17 June 2011, 14:39
"The [Primarl] video borrows all the language of investigative journalism (if not Panorama's production values) to 'follow the trail' of the investigation's producer in making the programme – before lapsing into promotional vid…
FT.com: Investigation reveals EU funding mess
Tuesday, 30 November 2010, 09:00
"Cynthia O'Murchu, the FT's investigative reporter, explains how the FT and the Bureau of Investigative Journalism pulled together an eight-month expose of the murky world of EU structural funds."
The Atlantic: WikiLeaks May Have Just Changed the Media, Too
Monday, 26 July 2010, 11:08
"This story — and the organization behind it — is obviously singular. It's being described as one of the largest leaks in U.S. military history. (Though it's worth noting that the value of the information is not totally clear yet.) But it also fits into a broader trend. Traditional media organizations are increasingly reaching out to different kinds of smaller outfits for help compiling data and conducting investigations."
Online Journalism Blog: NUJ’s making journalism pay online: five points
Tuesday, 19 January 2010, 08:50
"Gavid MacFadyean, director of the Centre for Investigative Journalism, said 75% of investigative journalism is now done by foundations or NGOs. This is because of cost cutting at newspapers and in TV, but also because foundations offer a far more effective environment for investigative journalism."
Birmingham Post: Help Me Investigate website uncovers parking ticket hotspots in Birmingham
Monday, 27 July 2009, 13:07
"A study by a groundbreaking public journalism project has revealed the worst place to park in Birmingham. … Freedom of Information specialist Heather Brooke obtained the figures from Birmingham City Council, and the data was collated and sorted by Help Me Investigate user Neil Houston."
Press Gazette: UK investigative journalism bureau wins £2m grant
Friday, 17 July 2009, 13:22
"The Bureau of Investigative Journalism will launch in London in the coming months … It will hire a managing editor, two or three reporters and will also fund freelance investigators and researchers. Its aim is to dig out – and then sell – the stories that many news organisations say they can no longer afford to cover in-house."
The Observer: How the Telegraph dug for victory
Sunday, 21 June 2009, 16:15
Peter Preston: "Without that formidable, meticulous investigation, no flipping revelations would have blotted honourable members' copybooks. So the Telegraph didn't merely hurry along due disclosure; it was the absolute, indispensable source."
Independent on Sunday: One disk, six reporters: The story behind the expenses story
Sunday, 21 June 2009, 16:12
"Locked in the bunker, [Robert] Winnett devised a system for going through the data methodically. First he sliced it up and distributed it between the six journalists, giving himself the Cabinet, somebody else the shadow Cabinet, somebody else Tory grandees and so on. The real work – checking expense claim addresses against the Land Registry, began a couple of days later. This information led the Telegraph team to discover some MPs' habit of "flipping" properties, designating a second home on which expenses could legitimately be claimed then switching to another. Checking electoral rolls and Companies House also revealed that some MPs had been switching second home designations to avoid capital gains tax. A source close to the operation describes the scene as 'like the ops room in The Wire. They would pin pictures of their targets on the wall then cross them out in red as they resigned.'"
Nieman Journalism Lab: Knight News Challenge: A grant to DocumentCloud promises a data boost for investigative journalism
Wednesday, 17 June 2009, 23:11
"DocumentCloud’s vision is to collect, archive, and index the text and metadata of all documents used by participating news organizations, advocacy groups, bloggers, and others — “so they’re not just sitting in the corner of a newsroom collecting dust,” Pilhofer explained."
Press Gazette: Channel 4 funds investigative journalism web project
Monday, 1 June 2009, 13:59
"The team hopes that Help Me Investigate will be one part of a "slow journalism" movement, joining even more sites that open government data and processes to the public such as They Work For You and Fix My Street."
Sixth W: NYT to release open-source “document viewer” for investigative journalism
Saturday, 13 September 2008, 17:59
"To help create their fantastic piece about Hillary Clinton’s White House schedules, the NYT developed a tool to aid them in analysis of the enormous amount of information that the schedules contained. Today at the Online News Association conference, Aron Pilhofer, editor of interactive news tech at the NYT, told a session audience that they are planning to release this tool as an open-source project!"
Saturday, 29 December 2007, 23:51
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WSJ managing ed Paul Steiger: "Next week I move over to a nonprofit called Pro Publica as president and editor-in-chief. When fully staffed, we will be a team of 24 journalists dedicated to reporting on abuses of power by anyone with power"
