Crowdsourcing
This fact-checking site tried crowdsourcing a story. Here’s what it learned.
Şükrü Oktay Kılıç is a digital content strategist at Teyit, a Turkish fact-checking website. On…
How do you trawl through a 2.6 million-word report? The Guardian is asking its readers for help
The Guardian turned to its audience on Wednesday for help telling a huge story: New,…
National Geographic built an online photo community that has more than half a million members
Seven years and more than 1,000 photos ago, Mike Melnotte shared his first image with…
4 tips for engaging your community during breaking news events
What did we learn from a day of nonstop reporting and outreach? Prioritizing digital engagement…
The New York Times now has ads from the ’20s on ‘Madison’
Screen shot, Madison On Monday, The New York Times R&D Lab added a new decade…
Facebook page aims to help find journalists who’ve dropped off the map
Sean Howe traces the start of his Committee to Detect Journalists page to his quest…
Columbia Journalism School professor wants to crowdsource longform journalism publishing
Capital New York | Folio The resurgence of longform publishing has a new ally in…
Tips on social media verification and online corrections
Earlier this week I had a great chat about online verification and corrections with Rachel…
Stumped New York Times reporter crowdsources ID of a rare bomb
The New York Times Senior writer C.J. Chivers (a former Marine) knows his way around…
Want to be a source? Sign up here, says Calgary Herald
Calgary Herald Digital engagement editor Tom Babin introduces a new system -- called Be a…
Public Insight Network launches reporting unit to make better use of its 130,000 sources
Public Insight Network launches reporting unit to make better use of its 130,000 sources
Spot.Us becomes part of Public Insight Network
DigiDave | American Public Media American Public Media has acquired Spot.Us and will integrate it…
ProPublica’s DocDiver helps users collaborate in document-based investigations
A ProPublica reporting project published today turns primary source documents into a platform for crowdsourcing…
Earthquake sent millions to social networks, where news orgs were ready to meet them
When a 5.8-magnitude earthquake rattled the east coast on Tuesday, Americans flooded social networks with…