Investigative Reporting: A future (presentation)
Last week I spoke at the Wits Power Reporting Conference on investigative reporting where I was asked to share some thoughts on a possible future for investigative reporting and the new media tools which we may use. I sketched out something of the work we have been doing at the Dispatch and then imagined some future possibilities.
Essentially, I see three exciting technologies and methods becoming central to journalism in general and investigative journalism in particular. They are data visualisation, GIS or geo-located news, and crowdsourcing. All three of these areas have become personal obsessions of mine and I'm spending many, many hours of my personal time studying them and thinking of their potential application in our work at the Dispatch. Watch this space!
Anyway, if you are interested, I have embedded my presentation below.
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