« Paid to Blog! | Main | In Defense of ... » Mitch Ratcliffe on WikiNewsMitch Ratcliffe has blogged a consideration of WikiNews, WikiMedia's collaborative news experiment. Mitch says If WikiNews editors acted as a peer-review committee and called out shortcomings in fact-checking or the accuracy of facts, this could be a powerful enhancement to multiple versions of events that helped the reader decide for themselves what actually happened. But reducing a report to a single version, especially based on contributions from people who were not actually there to record the event, is of questionable value.This made me think of the Investigative Blogging idea that Krista Bradford and Aldon Hynes have been discussing. The idea is to facilitate a conversation between bloggers and journalists. It might ultimately be called something more like 'investigative research,' but the idea is to combine the kind of investigation (and investigative persistance) that bloggers do with journalistic best practices to produce better blogging and better journalism and an intersection of the two disciplines. jon posted this at 9:41 PM |
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